Half profile | Photographer: Martin Franken | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalSo-called magic bowl. Round bowl with an upward curved circular bulge at the base, decorated inside and out. Inside: In the centre of the bulge a star made of two interlocking triangles (Solomon's seal), above it an ornamental band (script ?), followed by several bands with Arabic characters, partly overlapped by circles, and finally three rows of Arabic characters in "house"-shaped pentagons. Exterior: the bulge is decorated with a swirling ornamental band surrounded by an ornamental band, with an arabesque band above it between two bands of script; these three decorative bands are intersected by four large, symmetrically arranged circular shapes, ending with a band of script in larger Arabic characters.
Cataloguing data
Height: 1,9 cm
Diameter: 14,7 cm