Caption

Bowl, early 20th century, Palestine, metal vessel, height 4.7 cm, diameter 5.5 cm. Islamic art; Arabic inscriptions and calligraphy; decoration with braid and stylized Arabic inscriptions in cartouches on a punched background; geometric motifs., A shallow bowl on a pedestal with a rounded foot, shown against a plain light gray background, featuring a metallic surface with visible wear and patches where the finish has come off; the bowl displays a predominant gold color with areas of darker brown and muted copper tones, and raised decorative circular motifs with textured dot backgrounds and raised irregular white-silver lines, framed by reddish-brown borders, with the pedestal showing horizontal bands of gold and brown and patches of worn gold revealing underlying darker metal.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A24_116

License type

Rights managed

Available size

46.0Mb (854.3Kb) / 14.4in x 12.4in / 4308 x 3733 (300dpi)

Keywords

Bowl early 20th century Palestine metal vessel height 4.7 cm diameter 5.5 cm Islamic art Arabic inscriptions calligraphy decoration braid stylized Arabic inscriptions cartouches punched background geometric motifs shallow bowl pedestal rounded foot shown plain light gray background featuring metallic surface visible wear patches finish come off bowl displays predominant gold color areas darker brown muted copper tones raised decorative circular motifs textured dot backgrounds raised irregular white-silver lines framed reddish-brown borders showing horizontal bands brown worn revealing underlying darker metal.