Jar
10th century or 11th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
Green-glazed earthenwarem cone-shaped, decorated outside in low relief with horizontal bands of triangular ornament.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with incised decoration |
| Brief description | Earthenware with relief decoration and covered with a green glaze. Byzantine (Constantinople), 10th or 11th century |
| Physical description | Green-glazed earthenwarem cone-shaped, decorated outside in low relief with horizontal bands of triangular ornament. |
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| Credit line | Bought |
| Object history | Said to be from Constantinople. |
| Historical context | Talbot Rice said this jar was probably to be assigned to the 10th century as it shows the survival of Roman or Hellenistic spirit rather than a later orientalising style. |
| Bibliographic reference | Rice, David Talbot, Byzantine Art, Oxford University Press, 1935, p.187 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 262-1892 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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