Glazed bowl

Description

A bowl from the group of glazed open-form ceramics of south-eastern Crimea. It has a vertical, slightly convex shoulder separated from the body by a rib; the shoulder leans inwards and the rim is rounded and turned outwards. Type 9.1.B. Decorated with engraving in the sgraffito technique under a monochrome dark-yellow glaze with a line of uniform thickness, corresponding to division II.1. The ornamental field, outlined by a single line, is filled by a five-petalled whirling rosette with marked veins. The spaces hold triangles with concave sides whose inner fields are filled with spiral curls. The outside is covered with the same dark-yellow glaze only along the edge. The typology of I. B. Teslenko is used. Dated to the first quarter of the 14th century. Scientific description by Yaroslav Chentsov.