PERIOD | 13th Century |
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ORIGIN | Levant |
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DIMENSIONS | 19 Cm extend across |
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DESCRIPTION: | This exquisite clay fragmentary of a storage Jar was originally affected and moulded into the narrow neck of the Jar with the exquisiteness moulded Quranic Inscriptions.Title: Fragmentary Storage Jar for Cool Water With Quranic inscriptions intertwine Motifs |
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Footnote: | This type of pottery and clays its baluster-shaped body was a speciality of the Euphrates kilns at Raqqa in eastern Syria during the prosperous period of patronage instigated by the Ayyubid prince al-Malik al-Ashraf Musa between 1201 and 1229. With the demise of the kilns in the wake of the Mongol sack of the city in 1265, some potters may have moved westwards as evidenced in the survival of the baluster shape and underglaze technique in Damascus pottery production of the ensuing Mamluk period. |
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PROVENANCE: | Is said to have come from Oliver R Hoare Collection, an early 1970s distinguished renowned collector |
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CERTIFICATE: | Comes with a certificate from the Art Loss Register |
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