Rare dish decorated with stilt-walkers and inscriptions, Eastern Iran, Nishapur, 10th centuryA dish on a small ring-shaped foot with a carinated wall made of clay ceramic decorated with a pale green slip on a black slip under a transparent glaze with two epigraphic friezes in floriated kufic Arabic arranged in a cross and alternating with stylised stilt-walkers. Decorated with groups of stripes on the reverse. Diameter: 30 cm; height: 6.8 cmMany restorations, traces of iridescence . A large Nishapur dish with stylized birds, Eastern Iran, 10th centuryProvenance : Philippe Magloire Collection .