A KASHAN TURQUOISE GLAZED MOULDED POTTERY EWER with widening cylindrical body rounding to the sloping shoulder rising to the tapering cylindrical neck with angled tubular faceted spout and simple loop handle on short foot, the body moulded under the plain glaze with a broad band of scrolling palmette vine around an elegant naskh inscription with elongated hastae, the shoulder with a band of vine around a processsion of fleeting animals, a rope-motif band above, circa 1200 (neck and mouth possibly associated)

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A KASHAN TURQUOISE GLAZED MOULDED POTTERY EWER with widening cylindrical body rounding to the sloping shoulder rising to the tapering cylindrical neck with angled tubular faceted spout and simple loop handle on short foot, the body moulded under the plain glaze with a broad band of scrolling palmette vine around an elegant naskh inscription with elongated hastae, the shoulder with a band of vine around a processsion of fleeting animals, a rope-motif band above, circa 1200 (neck and mouth possibly associated)
8½in. (21.5cm.) high

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The inscription reads:" al-izz wa al-iqbal wa al-sa'ad wa al-amr wa al-kara[ma]" (Might, auspicious fate, felicity, rulership and God's blessing).

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