Dish with epigraphic decoration

The Dish with epigraphic decoration was made at the end of the 10th century, in eastern Iran or in Transoxiana. The production centers usually cited to house this type of ceramics are Nishapur and Samarkand.^[2] The dish is mentioned in a list drawn up by the collector A. Vassilieff from Kyiv who acquired it from a person who carried out excavations in Samarkand, in a private capacity. It is now kept at the Department of Islamic Arts of the Louvre Museum (inventory number AA 96). It was donated by Alphonse Kann in 1935.^[3]