TWO SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY BOWLS WITH STIPPLED DECORATION Eastern Iran, 9th - 10th century Each of conical shape, on a circular short foot, with straight rim, comprising a larger bowl, the earthenware body covered in white slip and painted with a red, brown and yellow slip decoration consisting of an abstract knotwork band to the cavetto and an eight-pointed star to the centre, the exterior plain, 15cm diam.; and a smaller bowl, the earthenware body covered in white slip and painted with a red and brown slip decoration consisting of a four-pointed star to the centre, the exterior plain except a continuous wave pattern band below the rim, 11.8cm diam. Provenance: Private UK collection, purchased in Iran in the late 1960's, thence in the family by descent.