A FINE KASHAN BLACK, BLUE AND WHITE CONICAL SMALL BOWL, the pure white interior with a central blue roundel painted under the glaze with six black radiating arabesque segments, flanked by radiating bands of minute black floral motifs, the blue rim with a band of stylised kufic, the exterior with panels containing waterweed motifs divided by paired cobalt lines, early 13th century (clean repaired breaks, pleasing silvery irridescence on exterior)