Bowl with an Enthronement Scene
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Object Label
The Irish-born William Guy Wall arrived in New York City in 1818 and quickly established himself as a successful landscapist. His watercolors often served as the basis for engraved reproductions that helped to popularize American landscape imagery. This work depicts a distant view of the seventy-foot-high waterfall on New Jersey’s Passaic River, a landmark renowned for its aesthetic beauty and awesome force (hydropowered manufacturing first developed along this river). In the English tradition, Wall applied layers of wash to capture reflections on the river, and he added human figures to provide scale to the scene.
Caption
Bowl with an Enthronement Scene, late 12th–early 13th century. Ceramic, mina’i (enameled) or haft rangi (seven colors) ware; in-glaze painted in blue, turquoise, and purple on an opaque white glaze, overglaze painted in red and black, with leaf gilding, 3 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. (8.1 x 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.61. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.61_editedversion_SL3.jpg)
Collection
Collection
Title
Bowl with an Enthronement Scene
Date
late 12th–early 13th century
Dynasty
Seljuq
Period
Seljuq Period
Geography
Place made: Iran
Medium
Ceramic, mina’i (enameled) or haft rangi (seven colors) ware; in-glaze painted in blue, turquoise, and purple on an opaque white glaze, overglaze painted in red and black, with leaf gilding
Classification
Dimensions
3 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. (8.1 x 21 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Accession Number
86.227.61
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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