Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 453

The buff clay fabric used to make this vessel forms the background to an overall decoration of animals, including birds and horned and spotted quadrupeds. Interspersed between them are small geometric motifs. None of these features seems to carry a meaning; they were simply a design innovation of the Nishapur potters.

Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration, Earthenware; polychrome decoration under transparent glaze (buff ware)

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Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration, Earthenware; polychrome decoration under transparent glaze (buff ware)
Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration, Earthenware; polychrome decoration under transparent glaze (buff ware)
Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration, Earthenware; polychrome decoration under transparent glaze (buff ware)
Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration, Earthenware; polychrome decoration under transparent glaze (buff ware)

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