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LNS 350 C

Composite bodied ceramic jar with a mannered cursive inscription around the shoulder, expressing good wishes to the owner

LNS 372 C

Earthenware bowl decorated in polychrome metallic lustre-painting in radial layout, with four shield-shaped compartments each containing a schematic plant and multiple lines of pseudo-Kufic script, probably of talismanic or ‘magic’ intent

LNS 859 C

Composite-bodied ceramic dish featuring, at center an elephant fight before a royal pavilion, bordered by flowering plants in counterclockwise rotation

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 1084 C

Composite-bodied ceramic dish, the well with a fanciful plant with serrated leaves and a central lotus leaf

LNS 827 C

Composite-bodied ceramic dish covered with whirling floral and foliate scrolls

LNS 1060 C

Unglazed earthenware master-mould for the production of composite-bodied ceramic vessels, decorated with haloed figures wearing elaborate head-dresses, seated in arched ‘pavillions’; around the base, good wishes to the owner in naskhi script

LNS 185 C

Reticulated double-walled composite-bodied ceramic ewer, the openwork shell decorated with seated princely figures enclosed in curvilinearized dodecagonal compartments

LNS 498 C

Earthenware bowl decorated with a stylized vegetal motif

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

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