Bowl, deep funnel-shaped, on high flaring foot, and with inward curving rim. Brownish earthenware. Decorations inside consist of all-over floral designs in brown and white, with white dots on brown ground (typical Sultanabad motif) with splash of bluish green in center, and at one side wave-like design in blue with four blue fish in low relief Cufic characters in blue and brown; body decorated with conventionalized elliptic designs in brown on white. The whole covered with yellow glaze. Broken and mended.

Bowl, 13th century

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The decorative technique represented by this bowl exemplifies a group of wares from the Ilkhanid period (1220-1336) typically associated with the Sultanabad area in Iran. The brown floral and bird motifs are painted in thick white slip (engobe) with black outlines and bluish-green touches under a transparent glaze. The white dots are a typical Sultanabad motif, and molded kufic script encircles the outside rim.

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Bowl, deep funnel-shaped, on high flaring foot, and with inward curving rim. Brownish earthenware. Decorations inside consist of all-over floral designs in brown and white, with white dots on brown ground (typical Sultanabad motif) with splash of bluish green in center, and at one side wave-like design in blue with four blue fish in low relief Cufic characters in blue and brown; body decorated with conventionalized elliptic designs in brown on white. The whole covered with yellow glaze. Broken and mended.