SYRIA, 12TH CENTURY

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A RAQQA MOULDED POTTERY VASE
Syria, 12th century
Of exaggerated rounded form rising to the sloping neck with everted mouth on short foot, the body moulded under the clear very pale green-blue glaze with bold vertical bands with arabesque upper terminals picked out in cobalt-blue divided by smaller geometric and interlace panels, areas of iridescence, repaired chips and hole, basically intact
14 3/8in. (36.2cm.) high

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拍品專文

Few large Raqqa carved pottery vases are decorated, as here, with more than one colour. One example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum which adds lustre decoration to the underglaze blue stems (Lane, Arthur: Early Islamic Pottery, London, 1947, pl.60a). The present example is unusually large and voluptuous in form.