Jar with ridged decoration
Details
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Title
Jar with ridged decoration
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Associated place
Syria (place of creation) -
Date
12th century (1101 - 1200) -
Material and technique
fritware, with splashes of blue under a transparent glaze
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.2 cm (height)
15 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1978.2216
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Glossary of terms
fritware
glaze
Further reading
Porter, Venetia, Medieval Syrian Pottery (Raqqa Ware) (Oxford: Asmolean Museum, 1981), illus. p. 13 pl. IV
Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn, Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), W 68, p. 73
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