10TH CENTURY ROUND NISHAPUR BOWL A truncated cone-shaped clay ceramic bowl, the interior decorated with engobe painted in brown, brick red, white and yellow under a transparent glaze, with interlaced beaded ribbons and geometric motifs framing scrolls of leafy palmettes. (Restored fractures). Iran, Nishapur, 10th century. A NISHAPUR CONICAL POTTERY BOWL, PERSIA, 10TH CENTURY. HEIGHT 7 CM (2 3/4 IN.) - DIAM. 22 CM (8 11/16 IN.) NOTE These ceramics, with their typically local motifs, are easily distinguishable from the ceramics produced in the rest of the Abbasid Empire to which Nishapur belonged. Nishapur ceramics are easily distinguished by their vivid, often figurative designs and the use of a bright mustard-yellow lead stannate pigment.