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Jug with Running Animals
1150-1220
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
"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.
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- Title: Jug with Running Animals
- Date Created: 1150-1220
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 13 x 14 cm (5 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.); Diameter of rim: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.495
- Medium: fritware with design in carved and underglaze-painted slip ("silhouette" ware)
- Department: Islamic Art
- Culture: Iran, probably Kashan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037–1194)
- Credit Line: Edward L. Whittemore Fund
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Accession Number: 1947.495
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