Sugar bowl and spoons

The manuscript opens with a faded ink drawing of a seated bearded man holding prayer beads in a landscape. The drawing is water damaged, and the inscription attributing the work to...

The interior of this bowl is divided into eight equal sections by lines, embellished with dots and twining tendrils, that spring from triangular arabesques and terminate with pairs...

Figural designs on polychrome ceramics offer tantalizing and often puzzling glimpses into the complex society of the Samanid realm, now divided between northeastern Iran and Uzbeki...

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...

Part of a set comprising of a teapot, creamer, and sugar bowl; each with compressed circular chased with spiral fluting and on spreading bases, applied at hte shoulders with bands ...

With its pure white slip, precise calligraphy, and perfectly clear glaze, this deep-walled bowl embodies the finest qualities of Samanid epigraphic wares. Most surviving examples o...

In the center of this bowl two harpies (composite bird-women) are turned toward each other, their tail feathers joining overhead in an ogival arch. In Islamic lands these mythical ...