Bowl of Reflections, early 13th century

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Bowl of Reflections with Rumi's poetry, , early 13th century. Ceramic; fritware, painted in luster and blue over an opaque white glaze, 3 3/8 x 13in. (8.6 x 33cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.16. About blue splashes: "Its blue splash is also fairly usual, and probably resulted when a drop of colored glaze fell from another piece being fired in the same kiln. Cobalt and turquoise were regarded as beneficial colors in the medieval Islamic world and a small patch, however unintended, must have been considered acceptable" Medieval Islamic ceramics, p.218

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