LNS 9 C
Earthenware bowl, metallic lustre-painted in copper red and olive green with whirling half-palmettes
LNS 193 C
Earthenware “Garrus ware” dish, featuring a dove with a stylized foliate stem
LNS 210 C
Composite bodied bowl painted in cobalt blue and metallic lustre, the inside center with birds amidst a quadripartite half-palmette scroll, against a dense spiralling scroll ground. Inscriptions in an extremely free cursive hand include good wishes to the owner; Persian verses on the pain of love; Arabic verses attributed to the Imam al-Shaf’i on the importance of learning; and the date of manufacture
LNS 290 C
Composite-bodied ceramic tile from the Mausoleum of Khwaja Rabi‘ at Mashhad (north-eastern Iran), the field with a centralized half-palmette arabesque which seamlessly weds the hexagonal center with the octagonal outer perimeter; inscribed inside the central polygon, ‘O Protector’ (an invocation to God)
LNS 185 C
Reticulated double-walled composite-bodied ceramic ewer, the openwork shell decorated with seated princely figures enclosed in curvilinearized dodecagonal compartments
LNS 99 C
Composite-bodied ceramic ewer, the body covered with upright foliate scrolls bearing lotus blossoms, and the neck with a continuous scroll of leaves and lotus blossoms
