A Nishapur or Samarqand slip-painted bowl, Central Asia, 10th century

of truncated conical form with straight flaring walls on a low foot, decorated in manganese black, reddish brown, white and yellow slips with a central roundel enclosing a kufic inscription, further kufesque elements in the broad band painted around the walls along with two large red and black palmettes flanked by yellow balls, a dotted band beneath the rim, the back with a narrow stylised chain band

Published in 1400 Years of Islamic Art, 1981, no.90

inscriptions

Repetition of possibly: al-yumn 'Good-fortune'

Comparable examples have been excavated at Nishapur and Samarqand.  See, for example, C. Wilkinson, Nishapur. Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, 1973, chapter 4, no.22.