A FINE ABBASID POTTERY BOWL WITH KUFIC INCRIPTION, IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY A FINE ABBASID POTTERY BOWL WITH KUFIC INCRIPTION, IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY A FINE ABBASID POTTERY BOWL WITH KUFIC INCRIPTION, IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY A FINE ABBASID POTTERY BOWL WITH KUFIC INCRIPTION, IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY A FINE ABBASID POTTERY BOWL WITH KUFIC INCRIPTION, IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY

A FINE ABBASID POTTERY BOWL WITH KUFIC INCRIPTION, IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3003087

The rounded earthenware body covered with an opaque white glaze, painted in blue with two Kufic lines to the centre and a row of stylized garlands along the rim, the exterior plain 17 cm. diam. 5.5 cm. height.

CATALOGUE NOTE inscriptions Possibly, twice: ‘abduhu ‘His (God’s) servant’

LITERATURE O. Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory, Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p.42, no.2.