Abbasid Decorated Bowl 11th-12th century A.D. A ceramic bowl with tapering walls, everted rim and plinth foot, decorated in brown and mustard-coloured lustres forming scallops around the rim and hatched geometric grid to bowl with solid circular border. 166 grams, 13 cm wide (5 1/8 in.). Acquired before the early 1970s. Ex London, UK, gallery. Property of a London gentleman.