Imitation Splashware Dish
Unknown Artist
This dish’s decoration of concentric bands and gridded central roundel are typical of Nishapur splashware, and several other examples like this one were found during the excavations. Unusual, however, is the purplish-black glaze, which has disintegrated in some areas, leaving blank spots on the surface of the dish.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1940
10th century
Earthenware; white slip, incised and splashed with polychrome glazes under a transparent glaze (sgraffito ware)
34.5 in
40.170.17
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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