Lot Essay
The inscription can be translated: Planning before work protects you from regret.
There is a flat-rimmed dish with the same inscription in the City Art Museum, St. Louis (Wilkinson, C.K.: Iranian Ceramics, Asia House, New York 1963, pl.22). For other examples see Volov, L., 'plaited Kufic on Samanid Epigraphic Pottery', Ars Orientalis, 6, 1966, pp.107-133, figs 1 and 2
There is a flat-rimmed dish with the same inscription in the City Art Museum, St. Louis (Wilkinson, C.K.: Iranian Ceramics, Asia House, New York 1963, pl.22). For other examples see Volov, L., 'plaited Kufic on Samanid Epigraphic Pottery', Ars Orientalis, 6, 1966, pp.107-133, figs 1 and 2