{"product_id":"cobalt-glazed-earthenware-bowl-persia-or-iraq","title":"Cobalt-Glazed Earthenware Bowl, Marjorie Ho Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eA proper table bowl from the early Islamic world. Wide-mouthed, glazed where it mattered, and left bare at the foot where the potter held it to dip into the glaze. Cobalt blue on a pale ground is one of the signature looks of early Mesopotamian Islamic pottery, the same blue that would later travel all the way to Chinese porcelain and back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe likeliest use is domestic rather than ceremonial: a bowl that sat low among a meal with cups and jars, holding food meant to be shared. Time has only helped it. Burial has turned the blue smoky and mineral, so the surface now carries both of its lives at once, first at the table and then in the ground. The period attribution is consistent with the type but remains untested, and we present it that way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248762257521,"sku":"KOBK.26.OBJ.028","price":495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h10.jpg?v=1781597429","url":"https:\/\/kobk.online\/products\/cobalt-glazed-earthenware-bowl-persia-or-iraq","provider":"KILL OR BE KILLED","version":"1.0","type":"link"}