Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:
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ID_Number:
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WBD_09437
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Creator name:
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Shamsuddin al-Hasani Abu Zayd
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Creator dates:
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active early 11th century
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Creator nationality:
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Iranian
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Title:
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Plate
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Date:
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December 1210
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Date type:
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creation
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Date notes:
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another date info refers to Jumadi II 607 A.H. (Jamada ll is the sixth month of the Islamic calendar)
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Repository name:
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Freer Gallery of Art
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Repository name variant:
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Smithsonian Institution. Freer Gallery of Art
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Repository location:
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Washington, D.C.
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Repository_inventory_ number:
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F1941.11
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Style_Period:
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Seljuk
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Style_Period name variant:
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Seljuk Dynasty
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Subject:
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ceramics (object genre)
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Subject:
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allegories
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Subject:
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divinity
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Subject:
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figures (representations)
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Subject:
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iconography
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Subject:
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youth (people)
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Subject:
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girls
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Subject:
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fishpond
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Subject:
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horse
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Subject:
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patterns (design elements)
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Subject:
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inscriptions
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Subject:
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foliation (pattern)
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Culture:
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Iranian
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Culture:
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Persian (culture)
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Category:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Work_type:
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plate (dish)
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Material_Technique:
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stone-paste painted over glaze with luster
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Measurement:
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3.7 x 35.2 x 35.2 cm
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Copy_Source:
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digital image
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Image_Source:
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Walter Denny
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Rights Reproduction & Access:
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Duplication rights - Walter Denny
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Filename:
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WBD_09437.JPG
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view description:
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detail view of left section, depicting the sleeping youth who represents the mystic who yearns to transcend the material world, symbolized by the horse on the right, and aims to attain the vision the the divine beauty (i.e. union with God)
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