Big decorated ceramic figure in the Kashan style, characterized by the union of the miniaturistic and the monumental styles (cf. Watson, 2004, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, p.347). Two pairs of characters with a face “as round as the moon”, in compliance with the aesthetic canon characterizing the Seljuq period, are in fact the focus of the front and the rear of the canopy that the animal is carrying, and stand out against a multitude of swirling floral motifs painted on the white background, or enclosed in triangular or circular reserves. During the Seljuq period, the camels coming from central Asia and the dromedaries coming from Arabia, were the main means of transport, employed especially to carry heavy loads, and in such contexts represented, as in this case or in another example from the New York Metropolitan Museum (nr. 64.59) published in Canby, Beyazit, Court and Cosmos, the great age of the Seljuqs, nr. 140. Restoration works and one broken ear.