A POTTERY BALUSTER JAR

SYRIA, PROBABLY DAMASCUS, 14TH CENTURY

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A POTTERY BALUSTER JAR
SYRIA, PROBABLY DAMASCUS, 14TH CENTURY
Rising from the foot to a well-rounded shoulder with short tubular neck and slightly everted lip, the body painted under a clear glaze in vertical bands of stylized vine alternating with calligraphy and petal design in black, white and cobalt, the neck with a band of petal motifs between plain black bands, some restoration and repainting
11½in. (29cm.) high

Lot Essay

A very similar jar from the Damascus Museum was published in Atil, E.: Renaissance of Islam -- Art of the Mamluks, Washington D.C, 1981, no.81. The note under that example gives details of a small group of four other pieces of the group, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the Louvre, in the Musée de Ceramiques at Sèvres and in Naples.

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