A KASHAN BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE POTTERY DISH with concave base and sloping sides on short foot, the white interior painted under the clear glaze with a central roundel of scrolling arabesques around a nimbate harpy, surrounded by groups of radiating lines, the rim with a broad band of scrolling fleshy arabesques around a simulated repeated kufic inscription, the exterior divided into radiating panels by paired blue lines, each panel with a stylised waterweed motif, 13th century (small areas of restoration, slight irridescence)