Spouted jug

The jug is covered with a transparent turquoise glaze and has two feline-shaped handles and two bullhead-shaped spouts. The designs are vertical compositions of leaf motives intercepted by curving peacock feathers. Two bands of inscriptions, en reserve on a black background read a Persian poem in the form of a ruba’i (quatrain) that was a popular type of verse established by the end of the 10th century. The interior is decorated with a group of fish. From Iran early 13th century, 15,5 cm Gift of Marina Lappa-Diomidous (ΓΕ 1401)