A Nishpur Calligraphic Pottery Bowl, Central Asia, 10th century

of truncated conical form with straight flaring walls and short foot, decorated in coloured slips on a cream slip ground with a central calligraphic motif in the form of a bird set in a red medallion and encircled by a radial inscription with palmette and peacock-eye filler motifs below a saw-tooth border

Breaks and repairs with come losses replaced with plaster, touching up along the breaks and glaze frits, as viewed
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inscriptions
al-jamal wa al-.... al-qalb

'Beauty and .... The heart'

The bird:  a name, possibly: Abu Hayy Yusif