A Nishapur bowl with a bird holding a fish, Eastern Persia, 10th century

of truncated conical form with flaring walls and short foot, painted in a brown and yellow slip on a cream slip ground under a transparent glaze, featuring a stylised bird with a fish in its beak, with a dotted background, the exterior with a band of repeating scrolls

Perpetual Glory. Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p.74, no.32.

O. Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory. Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p.74, no.32.
Céramiques du monde musulman, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 1999, p.111.

In fairly good condition, with few breaks and associated restoration including a little overpainting, some loss of glaze to exterior, as viewed.
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