Bowl with Running Hare in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2013

Bowl Depicting a Running Hare

Object Name:Bowl

Date:first quarter 11th century

Geography:Made in Egypt

Medium:Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

Dimensions:H. 3 in. (7.6 cm) Diam. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)

Classification:Ceramics

Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1964

Accession Number:64.261

Description:

As luster painting spread to Egypt from Iraq, Fatimid potters tailored their wares to suit the new market. The lively, naturalistic rendition of a running hare with a palmette branch in its mouth drawn in golden luster paint is typical of the vigorous and enchanting quality of Fatimid pottery.

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