A large Samarqand slip-painted dish with Kufic inscription, Central Asia, 10th Century

of broad shallow form with straight flaring rim, supported on a shallow foot with bevelled grooves, decorated in manganese purple and reddish brown over a white engobe, with a central  roundel with chain-pattern border enclosing a kufic inscription on a ground of red scrolls and palmettes, the rim with a band of pseudo-calligraphy on a dotted ground, the rim with a scalloped edge and further leaf and pseudo-letter forms on a dotted ground, the back with stylised leaves in alternating red and black slips

Published in 1400 Years of Islamic Art, 1981, no.92

inscriptions

Undeciphered