An unglazed pottery vessel with moulded decoration, Persia or Syria, 12th/13th century

of compressed globular form on a short foot, decorated in light-relief with roundels containing hares on a ground of circular motifs with a band above containing stylised birds, the underside with ropework design

Private collection, Germany, since 1993.

Intact, the surface rubbed with some abrasion as consistent with age, there seems to have originally been a spout to one side as indicated by a slight protrusion. as viewed.
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This type of detailed design, executed in light-relief on an unglazed ceramic of similar form, can be likened to an example in the Al-Sabah collection, Kuwait, inv. no.LNS 772C (Watson 2004, pp.124-5, cat.Ac.3).