An Abbasid tin-glazed pottery bowl, Near East, 9th century

with convex flaring sides and everted rim standing on a short foot, decorated in cobalt blue in an opacified tin glaze with a central line of kufic, the rim with scalloped design interspersed with decorative splashes

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A very similar example is illustrated in the Survey of Persian Art (Pope and Ackermann 1938, vol. 5, pl. 572D).