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Islamic Pottery. Dish. Unknown potter, Iran, probably Kashan. Shape: conical bowl with a low foot ring and a plain rim. Interior: on the rim a dentillated pattern is painted in lustre. A dense shoal of fish is painted on the body, swimming in a whorl around the roundel which contains a rosette with overlapping petals. Both fish and rosette are painted in reserve against a lustred background into which scrolls are incised on the body. Exterior: a dentillated pattern, of larger scale than that on the interior, is painted on the rim. On the body ‘ear muff’ style palmettes are painted in reserve against a lustred background, below which a pair of lustre concentric lines mark the edge of decoration. Glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring. Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown and painted in brown pigment and lustre under or over a white glaze, height, whole, 12 cm, width, whole, 45.7 cm, diameter, base, 22.8 cm, circa 1260-circa 1350. Il-Khanid. Notes: Possible that a large section of the decoration was added in recent times.
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