Fritware bowl, painted with a gray and white slip and in black, blue, and turquoise under a transparent glaze

Because of the motif and technique, this bowls is a “coarser” versions of the Sultanabad ware made in the Kashan region and must be considered provincial copies. Similar bowls have been excavated in Sarai, on the Volga River, one of the capitals of the Golden Horde. They should be dated to before 1395, when Timur’s troops destroyed the city, but there is still uncertainty about the site or sites where they were produced.

The bowl is decorated with a Chinese motif, a stylized lotus.