Bowl

This bowl demonstrates the exchange between Chinese and Abbasid ceramic productions. Chinese porcelain largely influenced the production of opacified tin glazed ware developed in Basra, Iraq in the 3rd century AH/9th century CE. Such examples, some with green splashes like this example, were also exported to China, where they started copying the Abbasid production to continue providing the Islamic market. With the discovery of the Belitung and the Cirebon shipwrecks in Indonesia, there is evidence of dynamic maritime trade connecting China and the Islamic world, as early as the 3rd century AH/9th century CE.