Luster Bowl with Man Holding a Banner 900s Iraq, probably Baghdad, Abbasid Period Earthenware with luster-painted design Diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.); Overall: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.) John L. Severance Fund 1959.331 DESCRIPTION This golden bowl displays a man holding a staff with a banner surmounted by a ball, crescent, and long streamer. He is flanked by two peacocks, one holding a palmette in his beak. INSCRIPTION One undecipherable inscription on the foot ring on the outside. CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 23, fig. 25 EXHIBITION HISTORY Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).