: pottery coated with slip to improve or decorate the surface
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The bowl is an example of what is known as Samanid epigraphic slipware, after the Samanid dynasty (819-999).—
Helen A. Cooper,
WSJ,
5 Aug. 2022 Among her recent works are a series of monumental wall hangings each made from dozens of slipware tiles adorned with compositions of symbols and patterns that seem to communicate fractured snippets of ancestral tales.—New York Times,
17 Mar. 2021