A mina'i footed dish with an enthroned figure and attendants and birds, Persia, late 12th/early 13th century

of shallow round form on a tall, slightly splayed foot, composed of fritware painted in blue, green, orange, beige and black on an opaque white glaze, featuring an enthroned figure between two attendants, birds to top and bottom, the wide rim with a Kufic inscription, the exterior also with an inscriptive band

Perpetual Glory. Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

O. Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory. Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p.109, no.67.

In general good condition, once broken and restored with associated overpainting, some abrasion and a small break due to pitting near head of enthroned figure, as viewed.
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inscriptions
Around the inner rim, in Kufic:

al-'izz al-da'im was al-iqbal al-za'id wa al-nasr al-ghalib wa al-farr al-qa'im wa al-jadd al-sa'id wa al-dawla wa al-sa'ada wa al-salama wa al-karama wa al-baqa li-sahibihi al-'izz al-da'im was al-iqbal al-za'id wa al-dawla wa al-sa'ada wa al-salama wa al-karama wa al-baqa li-sahibihi...

'Perpetual glory and increasing prosperity and triumphant victory and constant splendour and rising good-fortune and wealth and happiness and well-being and generosity and long-life to its owner. Perpetual glory and increasing prosperity and wealth and happiness and well-being and generosity and long-life to its owner ...'

Around the outer rim:

al-'izz al-da'im was al-iqbal al-za'id wa al-nasr al-ghalib wa [al-farr] al-qa'im wa al-jadd al-sa'id wa al-dawla wa al-sa'ada wa al-salama wa al-karama wa al-raha (?) al-dawla wa al-sa'ada wa al-sa'ada (sic) wa al-baqa li-sahibih

'Perpetual glory and increasing prosperity and triumphant victory and constant splendour and rising good-fortune and wealth and happiness and well-being and generosity and ease (?) and wealth and happiness and happiness (sic) and long-life to its owner'