Bowl with cruciform decoration of pseudo-inscriptions, Iran, Nishapur, 10th century Hollow bowl on a small circular foot in clay ceramic with green-painted decoration on a yellow opacified glaze of four lines of pseudo-inscriptions forming a cross, with dotted discs in the interstices. Diameter: 21.5 cm Reglued breaks, minor restorations. A bowl from the al-Sabah collection of the National Museum of Kuwait (LNS 548 C) shows strong similarities with our bowl, both in its green and yellow palette and in its decoration of epigraphic lines and dotted roundels. Another bowl from the same series, preserved at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (40.170.90), was discovered at the Tepe Madrasa site in Nishapur. A Nishapur Bowl with a Pseudo-Arabic Inscription, Iran, 10th century Philippe Magloire Collection - Lots 132 to 207