1. An Egyptian or Syrian earthenware bowl, 1200-50, depicting a harpy; her wing has a tiraz band wit
1. An Egyptian or Syrian earthenware bowl, 1200-50, depicting a harpy; her wing has a tiraz band with a pseudo-Kufic ‘inscription’ on it.2. A Kashan lustre bowl with two seated figures, birds, and cypress trees, Persia, Late 12th/Early 13th century.3.A Kashan lustre bowl with stylised decoration and inscriptions, Persia, Early 13th Century.4.Persia, circa 1200 A Kashan lustre pottery bowl of truncated conical form with straight flaring sides on a high foot, decorated in overglaze lustre with a band of kufic in the centre repeating the phrase al-baqa wa set in a reserve-decorated cartouche with attached palmette pendants, the white cavetto with a band of cursive script and a further band of script painted in reserve around the rim, the back with a band of leaves -- source link
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