细节
A SAMANID CONICAL POTTERY BOWL
PROBABLY SAMARKAND, CENTRAL ASIA, 10TH CENTURY
On short foot, the white interior with a very elegant kufic inscription, the interstices filled with small panels containing red and black dotted motifs, the central roundel with a similarly worked palmette within a square outline, zigzags around the rim, the exterior plain white, repaired clean breaks, glaze flaking around rim
8½in. (21.4cm.) diam.