Set of three bowls, Eastern Iran, Nishapur, 10th centuryClay ceramic bowls with slip-painted decoration on slip, under transparent glaze. The largest with pseudo-calligraphic decoration and stylized palmettes in ochre on an orange background, the second with a decoration of five wading birds in flight painted in black on a cream background, the third with a repeated decoration of a group of two red dots and a black dot under a wavy frieze underlining the lip. Diameter: 16.9, 15.2 and 13.5 cm; height: 5.4, 4.3 and 4 cmRestoration , glaze chips. Three Nishapur pottery bowls, Eastern Iran, 10th centuryProvenance : Philippe Magloire Collection .