Bowl with Geometric Designs
1450–1500
- Medium
- sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
About
This inlaid bowl has interlacing geometric designs in 12 arched panels that radiate from a star on the base. A pinwheel of six fish is engraved in the interior. Scholars recently reattributed them to Islamic manufacture, possibly for export to Europe.