Two dishes with brown and white decoration, Eastern Samanid Iran, Nishapur, 10th century A slightly hollow dish on a circular foot with a wide wing, in clay ceramic with brown slip painted decoration on white slip under a transparent glaze. A stylized bird is painted in the center of the smaller dish, bordered by two geometric friezes of wavy lines and jagged motifs. The larger dish features calligraphic decoration in floriated Arabic kufic script, with a repetition of the word "Baraka" in the center and a frieze all around, with a jagged line underlining the border. Diameter: 24.3 and 28.4 cm Restorations and breaks reattached. Provenance of the first plate: Boisgirard sale, Paris, Drouot, February 18, 1990, lot 81. Two Samanid Dishes, Eastern Iran, Nishapur, 10th century Philippe Magloire Collection - Lots 132 to 207