A Kashan Lustre Pottery dish with seated figure, Persia, circa 1200

of shallow form with steeply flaring sides and slightly flattened rim on a short foot, decorated over the glaze with golden lustre with a central medallion enclosing a figure wearing a spotted coat seated against a lustre ground scratched through with scrolls and leaves, the cavetto with a band of flying ducks against scrolls, the rim reserve-decorated with a band of naskh script, the back with a broad band of stylised leaves

Published 1400 Years of Islamic Art, London 1981, no.114

inscriptions
Two quatrains and a benedictory couplet both in Persian and two benedictory phrases in a mixture of Persian and Arabic.
For a similar quatrain and couplet see:  Ernst J. Grube, Cobalt and Lustre, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, 1994, cat. no. 272 (incised in lustre, the first quatrain and the last couplet).