This is an original Chinese white porcelain made during Chinese Song dynastyt found in Rayy. This bowls demarcates the wide extent of the trading network in the 10th century.

​Thick white crackles and a glaze covers both surfaces; faint stamped impressions resembling finger prints decorates the interior and fine vertical lines curved at top are incised on the exterior. 

This is a bowl made in Basra, found in Siraf. It imitates Song ware shape as well as Chinese white porcelain by applying an opacified tin/lead glaze over the body of the entire ceramic. However, this piece also represents distinctive local culture by using calligraphy on the interior as a form of decoration. The highly decorative blue Kufic script reads, "برکه صاحبی من عمل ابو نصر", which is the signature of Abu Nasr, the maker of the vessel.