This dish is a superb example of a Persian glazed ceramic decorated with a petal pattern, in-glaze painted and covered with a transparent glaze. The dish is also decorated with a pseudo script all around the rim. The dish resembles closely the 12th-13th century luster-painted ceramics from Iran, probably manufactured in Ravy, and therefore the same provenance is assumed for the piece presented here. The dish has a circular shape, slightly conical, and stands on a cylindrical short foot.

Ceramic production in the Islamic lands from Egypt to Central Asia witnessed a major change in the second half of the eleventh century, when a new medium- stonepaste- started to be used that replaced earthenware and promoted experimentation with new decorative techniques and motifs. Stonepaste—also called fritware or siliceous ware—is made mainly of finely ground quartz (obtained by crushing pebbles or sand) that is mixed with small amounts of liquefied glass (glass frit or glass fragments) and refined clay for greater malleability and structure.
Production of stonepaste likely first developed in Egypt in the tenth and early eleventh centuries and then spread to Syria and Iran.