Persia, Ca. 10th century AD. A pottery bowl of a hemispherical form on a short unglazed foot. The interior is embellished with stylised motifs splashed in brown, yellow and green. Medieval Islamic ceramics developed as a distinctive tradition of decoration in Muslim lands several centuries after the original Arab conquests. From the 9th century onwards, distinctive Islamic ceramic styles, often involving glazed and/or incised decoration developed and spread across the Islamic world and beyond; Islamic ceramics also had an important influence on pottery production in Italy and in the Byzantine empire. For a type, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 38.40.137. Size: 90mm x 195mm ; Weight: 840g Provenance: Private London family collection; formed between 1970-2008.