Bowl with three stylized birds among foliate scrolls, Bowl, convex convex, on a foot ring. Gray-white shard covered on the inside with brown-gray silt on which three stylized flying birds are embossed with white silt (the feathers are indicated by sgraffito lines), amidst slender and leaf motifs in white silt as relief. A similar band with leaf motifs along the top edge. The whole covered with transparent colorless alkaline glaze. The outside is not covered with sludge but only with a colorless transparent alkali glaze including cobalt blue and black dots, a cobalt blue character including

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Bowl with three stylized birds among foliate scrolls, Bowl, convex convex, on a foot ring. Gray-white shard covered on the inside with brown-gray silt on which three stylized flying birds are embossed with white silt (the feathers are indicated by sgraffito lines), amidst slender and leaf motifs in white silt as relief. A similar band with leaf motifs along the top edge. The whole covered with transparent colorless alkaline glaze. The outside is not covered with sludge but only with a colorless transparent alkali glaze including cobalt blue and black dots, a cobalt blue character including three black dots., anonymous, Kashan, c. 1275 - c. 1324, earthenware, glaze, cobalt (mineral), vitrification, h cm d 21 cm d cm

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