Flask
Several examples of this shape were excavated, including the body of a miniature carafe and a rare cobalt blue example, mold-blown with an all-over decoration of half-palmettes. This example, with its facet-cut neck and plain horizontal lines on the body, somehow recalls the approach to the decoration of Nishapur's wheel-thrown unglazed ewers.
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