A small Nishapur calligraphic dish, Central Asia, 10th century

of shallow form on a short neatly-turned foot, painted in coloured slips with two lines of calligraphy enclosed in cloud cartouches with red-line borders against a dotted ground with a double-line border below the rim

12.9cm.

inscriptions

A suggested reading:

al-jamal fi'l- ... wa al-sabr dallahu

‘Beauty is in … and patience has guided it.’