Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 12. (Budapest, 1970)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1968

Fig. 10. Egypt. Luster painted deep bowl. Low base, straight flaring sides with the rim bent back. Whitish pitted glaze. The inside is painted in honey coloured luster. The decorative bands filled with pseudoArabic inscriptions form two intercrossing triangles which contain the figure of a hare. On the inner sides the bands hold large plant motifs. Among the bands a>i1d the rim spiral lines. The exterior decoration shows engraved and relief parallel lines and slanting lines painted is yellow or pinkish colour. On the bottom coarse glaze and deep spiral line. The sides have been restored, together with the original luster painting and pseudo-Arabic inscriptions Fatimid period, 11th century. On the evidence of the animal figure this bowl can be ranged to the circle of Muslim (Cf. M. Jenkins: An Early Fatimid Ceramist. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, May, 1968. p. 360.). — A gift by Edmund de Unger. London, 1968. — H.: 14 cm. Diam. at the rim: 35 cm. Inv. No. 68.32. L. F.