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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 145

Jar

1300-1400 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jar, fritware, high shouldered ovoid jar with tall slightly tapering neck and everted rim, covered in a deep cobalt blue glaze and painted in yellow lustre


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, painted in lustre over cobalt blue glaze
Brief description
Ceramic, Jar, fritware, painted in yellow lustre over cobalt blue glaze, Syria, probably Damascus, 1300-1400
Physical description
Jar, fritware, high shouldered ovoid jar with tall slightly tapering neck and everted rim, covered in a deep cobalt blue glaze and painted in yellow lustre
Dimensions
  • Height: 40cm
  • Diameter: 25cm
Object history
This storage jar was exported to Sicily, where it was acquired.
Bibliographic references
  • Soustiel, Jean. La céramique islamique. Le guide du connaisseur. Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1985. ISBN 2-8264-0002-9. Pl. 264, p. 232
  • Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 133p., ill. Page 16, plate 8
Collection
Accession number
1600-1888

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Record createdNovember 7, 2003
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