This dish has an everted lip with a short foot. It is decorated with four cobalt fan-like palmettes around a central dot.This dish is one of the most significant examples of ceramics produced during the early Abbasid period. The production of opaque white glazed wares in Iraq in the late 8th or 9th century signifies the beginning of a widespread tradition that spread across the Islamic world and eventually to Europe where opaque white glazed wares dominated fine-quality ceramic production for many centuries.
