A Kashan lustre bowl with two seated musicians and inscriptions, Persia, Early 13th Century

of deep rounded form on an everted foot, painted in honey-brown lustre over an opaque white glaze, decorated with two seated musicians next to a cypress tree, with inscriptions around the inner rim and on the tambourine of one musician

Croisier Collection, Switzerland

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. Plotnik Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p.131, no. 84.

Intact, in good condition, glaze bright, some abrasion to external rim with very little associated restoration to past minor chips, one small minor chip on rim, as viewed.
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inscriptions

The inscription around the inner rim is undeciphered, as is the word inscribed on the tambourine.