Four ceramic bowls, Eastern Iran, Nishapur, 10th century Truncated cone-shaped, clay ceramics with slip-painted decoration on slip under a transparent glaze. The largest decorated with geometric friezes on the inner wall around a central rosette motif; the second with a hare passing in reserve on a speckled background; the two smallest with geometric decoration of a quatrefoil inscribed in a circle. Diameter: 18.2 cm; 16.3 cm; 11.3 and 11.6 cm Broken-glued, restorations. Provenance of the two small bowls: Sale by Me Rheims, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 16, 1961.