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Fritware bowl, Kashan, Iran, Muharram, 583 A.H./ 1187 A.D.

Some mina’i ceramics enjoy a particularly close relationship to poetry. Many examples are inscribed with verses, and others are decorated with figures referring to well-known poetic themes and tales. Several of these colorful wares, including this bowl, appear to depict the act of poetic recitation itself: it can be imagined that the performer here, seated at the left before a courtly audience, is delivering the verses inscribed along the exterior rim of the bowl, which begin: “If the beloved leaves me, what am I to do? If s/he does not see the wisdom of our union, what am I to do?”

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