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1956. One Small Pitcher, with original handle. 
Persian.

[[left margin]]SMITHSONIAN. 1345[[/left margin]]
Soft, buff paste.
On outside, dark green glaze decorated with a band of inscription, in Arabic, around neck and vertical lines in pairs around body, all incised and filled in with glase like that covering the inside of the pitcher; crackled; purplish-silver iridescence.
Inside light greenish-blue glaze and oil-very iridescence. 
XIII Century.
High basal ring flaring outward and unglazed within.
Two small areas on neck running downward from rim are missing and filled in with plaster; otherwise intact.
Height, 5 3/4". Diameter of mouth, 2 7/8".
From excavation at Raghes. 

Purchased from Dikran Kelekian, Paris, while on trip during the summer of 1909, as per Voucher No. 20, July 1909, for £ 100., plus pkg., frt., &c.   490.00 [[right margin]]✓[[/right margin]]

1957. One Circular Bowl. Persian.

[[left margin]]SMITHSONIAN. 1346[[/left margin]]
Hard, buff-colored paste.
Ivory-white under-glaze; uncrackled; slightly iridescent and showing small areas of yellowish earth scale.
XII Century.
Decorated on inner base with four sitting figures and three standing camels, above which 
two bands of decoration encircle inner side: the upper band reaches the rim and consists of conventionalized decorative Cufic letters; the lower band is of geometrical pattern. On the outside an encircling band of lozenge form containing dots.
The decorations are applied with a brush in red, black, green, and gray.
Recessed basal ring; intact.
Cracks and slight repairs.
Height, 4 5/8". Diameter at rim, 8 5/8".

Purchased from Dikran Kelekian, Paris, while on trip during the Summer of 1909, as per Voucher No. 20, July 1909, for £ 200., plus pkg., frt., &c.           985.00 [[right margin]]✓[[/right margin]]

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2023-05-25 Please note where text is unclear marked [[?]]. (Should be fixed aside from currency symbols)