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Dish inscribed with poem by Omar Khayyam
unknown1673-1674
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
Inscribed with poem by Omar Khayyam: "This dish, which the intellect applauds, and on whose forehead it places a hundred kisses; See! The Master (craftsman) of Eternity fashions such an exquisite cup, only to cast it down to the ground again. In the year 1084 (1673-74)" On the base is the blue tassel-mark of Kirman.
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Details
- Title: Dish inscribed with poem by Omar Khayyam
- Creator: unknown
- Date: 1673-1674
- Location: Kirman, Iran
- Physical Dimensions: h4.7 cm
- Provenance: Purchase through funds provided by the ROM Foundation and the Louise Hawley Stone Fund
- Type: Dish
- Rights: Royal Ontario Museum
- Medium: Ceramic (stonepaste, thrown), with cobalt-blue, chromium black and chromium-green paint under colourless alkali glaze
- Time period: Safavid period
- Accession Number: 2000.48.1
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