Jug with Running Animals
1150–1220
- Medium
- fritware with design in carved and underglaze-painted slip ("silhouette" ware)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13 x 14 cm (5 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.); Diameter of rim: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iran, probably Kashan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037–1194)
About
"Silhouette" ware continues the tradition of painting with slip (liquefied clay) directly on the white body beneath the glaze. On this jug, thick black slip was applied and then carved with a knife to create the design of running animals and pseudo-script.