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A RAQQA POTTERY BALUSTER JAR
SYRIA, EARLY 14TH CENTURY
Of well rounded form with short vertical neck and rolled lip, the body moulded around the shoulder with five rows of depressions forming a honeycomb lattice above vertical flutes, a band of black pointed naskh above the flutes, the shoulder with a band of rope-pattern, the neck with alternating blue and black triangles separated by leaf-motifs, the surface covered by a thick slightly green transparent glaze, intact, slight chips to highpoints, glaze flaked around neck
9¾in. (24.9cm.) high
SYRIA, EARLY 14TH CENTURY
Of well rounded form with short vertical neck and rolled lip, the body moulded around the shoulder with five rows of depressions forming a honeycomb lattice above vertical flutes, a band of black pointed naskh above the flutes, the shoulder with a band of rope-pattern, the neck with alternating blue and black triangles separated by leaf-motifs, the surface covered by a thick slightly green transparent glaze, intact, slight chips to highpoints, glaze flaked around neck
9¾in. (24.9cm.) high
Provenance
Henri Pharaon Collection, Beirut