Jar
1200-50 (made)
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Jar of greyish-white fritware, inverted pear-shaped with a short cylindrical neck and everted rim with a pair of underglaze painted turquoise-blue bands on the body. Fragments from other vessels are embedded in the shoulder.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Fritware painted under the glaze |
| Brief description | Jar of greyish-white fritware, inverted pear-shaped with a short cylindrical neck and everted rim; Syria (Raqqa), 1200-1250. |
| Physical description | Jar of greyish-white fritware, inverted pear-shaped with a short cylindrical neck and everted rim with a pair of underglaze painted turquoise-blue bands on the body. Fragments from other vessels are embedded in the shoulder. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sir Charles Marling |
| Object history | Found on the side of an old kiln at Ar-Raqqah. |
| Production | inventory |
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| Bibliographic reference | Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006), cat. no. W63, p. 70. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.109-1909 |
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| Record created | March 25, 2009 |
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