the shoulder with lobed cartouches containing calligraphic inscriptions and quatrefoils with foliate motifs, the body with arabesque arches between medallions each featuring split-palmette designs

In general good condition, minor dents to body, rubbing to surface, some consolidation around two old cracks, scratches to surface, as viewed.
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inscriptions

The inscriptions contain two benedictory quatrains and a verse.

One of the quatrains appears on two pieces in the Victoria and Albert Museum attributed to the mid and late sixteenth century (Melikian-Chirvani 1982, cat. nos. 126 (the second quatrain) and 134). The single benedictory verse is from Sa’di’s single couplet and is on a piece in the Victoria & Albert Museum dated by Melikian to the late sixteenth-early seventeenth century (Melikian-Chirvani 1982, cat. no. 145).

Owner’s name as: Shaykh Muhammad ibn Darvish Muhammad