Glazed bowl

Description

A bowl from the group of glazed open-form ceramics of south-eastern Crimea. It has a hemispherical body with a rounded edge, no shoulder, and a ring foot of medium height. Form type 9.4A. Decorated with engraving in the sgraffito technique under a monochrome glaze and in the champlevé technique, corresponding to division II.2. The upper part of the outside is covered with green glaze, incised parallel lines and a wavy pattern running around it. The centre of the inner surface shows a stylised walking bird surrounded by leaves and flowers on tall stems, its head turned to the right; the wings, tail and body are rendered by dense parallel hatching. Along the upper edge the vessel is decorated with three parallel lines. Covered with a light yellow-green glaze. The typology of I. B. Teslenko is used. Dated to the second half of the 14th to first half of the 15th century. Published by E. R. von Stern (Stern 1906, pl. VIII: 75). Scientific description by Yaroslav Chentsov.