Abbasid lustreware bowl

9th–10th century AD · Abbasids

A bowl signed by the potter Khalid, made with the metallic-lustre technique that Iraqi potters invented in the Abbasid era to imitate gold, which then spread across the Islamic world.

Date

9th–10th century AD

Civilization

Abbasids

Where it is today

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer), Washington

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