A Rare Abbasid or Fatimid Lustre Pottery Bowl, Persia or Egypt, 10th-11th Century

of rounded form with everted rim and short foot, painted over the glaze with golden lustre with the figure of a hawk on a peacock-patterned ground with a shaped white cartouche below enclosing a kufic inscription

Broken and fragmentary, reconstructed with missing setions filled in with plaster, glaze in good condition, as viewed
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inscriptions
.... kull haniyan

'Eat wholesomely!'

A related dish with a similar hawk design, attributed to Fatimid Egypt, eleventh century, and formerly in the J.P. Croisier Collection, was on loan to the Institut du monde arabe, Paris (see Moulliérac, J., Céramiques du monde musulman, Paris,1999, p.129)