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A Nishapur Buff Clay Pottery Bowl, ca 10th century AD
A Nishapur Buff Clay Pottery Bowl, ca 10th century AD

A Nishapur Buff Clay Pottery Bowl, ca 10th century AD
Item No.
5320
Description:
Nishapur bowl featuring human and animal subjects rendered in a distinctive palette of yellow, green, red, green, red and black. This bowl is unusual it its depiction of a man with crescent horns in place of a head.
Cf. Charles Wilkinson, Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, plate 2.
Size:
Diameter 8 7/8? (22.5cm)
Period:
10th century AD
Condition:
minor restoration.
 
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