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1956. One Small Pitcher, with original handle. Persian. [[stamp]] SMITHSONIAN. [[/stamp]] 1345 [[checkmark]] 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 glaze like that covering the inside of the pitcher; crackled; purplish-silver iridescence. Inside light greenish-blue glaze and silvery iridescence. XIII Century. High basal ring flaring outward and un-glazed within. Two areas on neck running downward from rim are missing and filled in with plasters: otherwise intact. Height, 6 3/4". Diameter of mouth, 2 7/8". From excavation at Raghon. Purchased from Dikran Kelekian, Paris, while on trip during the Summer of 1909, per Voucher No. 20, July 1909, for £100., plus pkg., frt., &c. 490.00 [[checkmark]] 1957. One Circular Bowl. Persian. [[stamp]] SMITHSONIAN. [[/stamp]] 1346 [[checkmark]] Hard, buff-colored paste. Ivory-white under-glaze; uncrackled; slightly iridescent end showing small areas of yellowish earth scale. XII Century. Decorated on inner base with four sitting figures and three standing [[obscured]], above which two bends of decoration circle inner side; the upper land reaches the rise and consists of conventionalized decorative Cufic letters; the lower band is of geometrical pattern. On the outside an encircling band of losenge form containing dots. The decoration are applied with a brush in rod, black, green and gray. Recessed basal ring; intact. Creeks and alight 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 [[checkmark]]
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