Bowl with Two Facing Peacocks, second–third quarter 10th century, Made in Iraq, probably Basra, Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze, H. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm), Ceramics, Birds were a particularly popular subject in the Abbasid period, as artists in many media transformed the creatures’ beaks and wings into increasingly abstracted designs. The symmetrical pattern of two peacocks facing each other finds iconographic precedents in examples dating from the late antique and Byzantine periods, where it often carried paradisiacal connotations
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Bowl, Two Facing Peacocks, second–third quarter 10th century, Iraq, Basra, Earthenware, luster-painted, opaque white glaze, H, 3 3/4, 9.5 cm, Ceramics, Birds, particularly popular subject, Abbasid period, artists, media transformed, creatures, beaks, wings, increasingly abstracted, designs, symmetrical pattern, two peacocks, facing, finds iconographic, precedents, examples dating, late antique, Byzantine periods, carried paradisiacal, connotations
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