A Kashan underglaze decorated footed dish, Persia, circa 1200

of shallow form with flattened rim and high spreading foot, painted in shades of cobalt blue and black under a transparent colourless glaze, the interior with a central knot-form medallion surrounded by six radial leaf-shaped motifs separated by black arabesques, the cavetto with a band of naskh reserved in black, the rim with a blue pseudo-kufic band on a leaf scroll ground, the back with a scalloped border above sprays of waterweed in black

Published in 1400 Years of Islamic Art, London 1981, no.106

inscriptions

Round the wall, reserved against black: Two Persian couplets.

For a similar couplet see:  Ernst J. Grube, Cobalt and Lustre, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, 1994, cat. no. 273 (inside).

In Kufic: repetition of:

al-'izz al-da'im

'Perpetual Glory'