Decorated glazed dish

This dish features stylised vegetal motifs along its rim. Painted black and set between two black bands, the motifs sit against a turquoise background and under a pale blue transparent glaze. The dish’s base and inner and outer walls are badly damaged, but the interior appears to have a zigzag pattern around a central vegetal motif echoing that on the rim.

The dish’s fragments have repair holes near their edges, where animal derived rope, plant fibre or metal ties have been used to bind the broken pieces together. The colour combination of black and turquoise under a transparent glaze suggests this piece to be an Iranian production, possibly of the Kashan type during the 12th-14th centuries.