A KASHAN LUSTRE BOWL, Persia, Dated A.H. 610/ A.D. 1213

of truncated conical form with everted rim, sharply carinated at the base, on a cylindrical footring, decorated in lustre, the interior base with a depiction of a figure sitting cross legged encircled by a band of naskh script surmounted by a band of kufic script and a further band of naskh script, the rim lined by a band of naskh script reserved on a lustre ground, the reverse decorated with a large band of scrolling motifs



inscriptions



Round the base: an Arabic quatrain attributed to Imam 'Ali, followed by parts of a couplet in Persian



Round the body in Kufic, repetition of:
al-'izz al-da'im al-... 



'Perpetual Glory...'



Round the body in lustre:
Two quatrains, one in Arabic and one in Persian.



Round the rim, reserved against lustre:
A Persian quatrain, parts of another quatrain, a benedictory Persian couplet followed by the date:                               
fi jumadi al-akhir sana ... sittami'a 



'In Jumadi II, the year six hundred and ten'

crack running around the edge of the well and glaze cracquelure thoughout, cracks to rim with associated filling, as viewed
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