A Nishapur or Samarqand slip-painted pottery jar, Central Asia, 10th Century

red-bodied, of high-shouldered form with oviform body sloping shoulder and short everted rim, on a low foot, painted in coloured slips with a broad frieze of reciprocal shield-form leaves in red and green each with a beaded border and a split-palmette centre, a narrow pseudo-calligraphic band to the neck

with chips to rim and foot, some glaze losses around the body, as viewed
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