An Amol ware pottery dish with bird design, Persia, 12th century

with reddish body, of shallow form with flaring walls and everted rim, the interior covered with a cream-coloured slip and incised design of a bird with four stylised flowerheads and a triple-line circular border, the incised areas highlighted with splashes of copper green glaze applied with a brush, the back left plain

ex-Japanese private collection

breaks and repair to the rim and body with some infill and over-painting, as viewed
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Named after a town close to the Caspian Sea in northern Iran, examples of Amol ware are published in A Survey of Persian Art, (Pope and Ackerman 1938-9, vol.V, plates 623-629).