A Kashan turquoise-glazed zoomorphic pottery bottle, Persia, 12th-13th Century

with globular body on a short foot, the shoulder moulded with a frieze of high-relief flutes decorated with scrolls, the tapering neck with a series of applied vertical flanges terminating in a bull's head top with open tubular mouth and paired horns forming loop handles at the top, a vertical spout rising from the shoulder and terminating in a cup-shaped mouth, covered with a transparent turquoise glaze which stops short of the footring

Published in 1400 Years of Islamic Art, 1981, no.99

Compare Grube 1976, p.171, no.120