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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Water Pot

9th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Water pot of fritware, moulded with relief decoration in two halves which are joined in a horizontal seam. Flat disk foot with a globular body and expanding neck with four handles connecting the neck and shoulder. Decorated with bands of vertical and diagonal lines on the neck, of intersecting diamonds, intersecting arcades, diamond diaper, and diagonal herring-bone patterns, all in horizontal bands, on the body. Inside the base of the neck is a filter with decorative apertures cut at the join.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, moulded
Brief description
Water pot of fritware, moulded with relief decoration in two halves which are joined in a horizontal seam, probably Syria, 9th century.
Physical description
Water pot of fritware, moulded with relief decoration in two halves which are joined in a horizontal seam. Flat disk foot with a globular body and expanding neck with four handles connecting the neck and shoulder. Decorated with bands of vertical and diagonal lines on the neck, of intersecting diamonds, intersecting arcades, diamond diaper, and diagonal herring-bone patterns, all in horizontal bands, on the body. Inside the base of the neck is a filter with decorative apertures cut at the join.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18cm
  • Diameter: 12.5cm
Gallery label
Water-pot. From excavations at Al Mina, near Antioch. Probably SYRIAN; 9th-10th century. Given on behalf of the Archaeological Expedition to North Syria, by Leonard Woolley. C.252.1937.(1954)
Credit line
Given on behalf of the Archaeological Expedition to North Syria, by Sir Leonard Woolley
Object history
From the excavations at Al Mina, near Antioch.
Production
Excavated at al-Mina
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Fehérvári, G. Islamic pottery: A comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection. London: Faber & Faber, 1973. p. 48, No. X.4. Pl. 2c
  • Lane, Arthur. Early Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1947. 52p., ill. Page 27, plate 36C
Collection
Accession number
C.252-1937

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2003
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