Covered bowl

This small tea bowl has rounded sides that rise from its small, circular footring to its circular lip, which is subtly indented just below the top. The bowl's walls are relatively ...

This two-piece set includes a U-shaped bowl and a flat cover with a tiny, pierced, strap handle at the indented heart of the cover's lightly swollen center. The bowl's thin walls e...

The small, circular foot and lightly indented, vertical lip of this large yankou wan, or funnel-shaped bowl, are connected by steeply sloping walls that show a well defined, angula...

The walls of this large yankou wan, or funnel-shaped, tea bowl expand from the small, circular foot, beginning their steep ascent to the lightly indented, vertical lip at an angle ...

Among the more extravagant developments in Samanid epigraphic wares is the elaboration of Arabic script—occasionally, as here, to the point of illegibility. The inscription on this...

The walls of this shallow, circular bowl extend laterally from the circular footring (to form the vessel floor), then rise vertically to the mouth rim. The piece is fully glazed in...

Although painted with apparent dash, the colorful decoration of this bowl is carefully composed. The design is laid out in three registers: an Arabic word meaning “harmony” occupie...

With its exceptionally thin potting and near-translucent, pure white fabric, this small bowl belongs to a category of fine ceramics popularly known as “Gombroon wares.” The bowl ha...