Large dish with pseudo-calligraphic frieze, Eastern Iran, Nishapur, 10th-11th century Large dish with a carinated body resting on a circular foot in clay ceramic, decorated with a pseudo-calligraphic frieze around the edge and a discoidal motif in the center, painted in brown and red slips on a white slip under a transparent glaze. The frieze is made up of coiled stems separated by vertical lines evoking mostly brown Arabic calligraphy in kufic script, with four groups of two red stems punctuating the whole. Diameter: 36.1 cm Restorations, iridescence. Provenance : Collection of Dr. J-C. Lacoux, Boisgirard & Heeckeren sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 21, 1980, lot 5 and reproduction on catalog cover. A large dish of similar composition, attributed to production in Nishapur in the 11th-12th centuries, is in the collections of the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin (Nr. I. 4/71). Its pseudo-calligraphy consists of brown double-palmettes interrupted only twice by red double-palmettes. A Large Dish with a Pseudo-calligraphic Frieze, Eastern Iran, Nishapur, 10th - 11th century Philippe Magloire Collection - Lots 132 to 207