Bowl With Inscription. Iran, Samanid, 9th-10th century CE. Ceramic; earthenware, black slip with white slip decoration under a transparent glaze, 33.5 cm. Accession number AKM00545 . The Aga Khan Museum © Copyright Aga Khan Museum Plat à décor épigraphique...

Vase. Iran, Samanid, 10th century CE. Ceramic; earthenware, white slip with black slip decoration under a transparent glaze. Height 19.8 cm. Accession number AKM00544. The Aga Khan Museum © Copyright Aga Khan Museum This vase is a fine example of ceramic...

Dish With Inscription. Iran, Samanid, 10th century CE. Ceramic; earthenware, polychrome slip decoration under a transparent glaze; 32.8 cm. Accession number AKM00541. The Aga Khan Museum © Copyright Aga Khan Museum Like their monochrome or bi-coloured...

A fine Samanid slip-painted calligraphic pottery Bowl.. Afrasiyab or Nishapur, 10th Century. Photo Bonhams with straight flaring sides, decorated in black on a white ground with a frieze of kufic inscription 22.5 cm. diam. Lot 43. Estimate: £40,000 -...

A Samanid slip-painted calligraphic pottery Bowl. Eastern Persia or Transoxiana, 10th Century. Photo Bonhams with slightly rounded, flaring sides, decorated in black on a cream ground, the sides with three kufic inscriptions with a stylised floral motif...

A Samanid calligraphic slip-painted pottery Bowl. East Persia, 10th Century composed of fragments mounted to form a bowl, painted in manganese on a white ground with inscriptions in kufic. 33.5 cm. diam. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 Footnote: Inscriptions...