SYRIA, LATE 8TH/9TH CENTURY

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A LATE UMAYYAD OR EARLY ABBASID MOULDED AND LEAD-GLAZED POTTERY BOWL
SYRIA, LATE 8TH/9TH CENTURY
Of hemispherical form with small loop handle, the exterior moulded with a band of lozenge panels, a broad band of overlapping fish-scale motifs above, the foot with an incised large flowerhead, the whole covered with a thin and mostly iridescent glaze, the interior yellow-glazed and painted with radiating green lines, single repaired break, areas of iridescence
5in. (13.1cm.) diam.

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拍品專文

A bowl with very similar combination of techniques is in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, Cat.D.5, p.175). In his discussion of that bowl Oliver Watson mentions a number of bowls with moulded decoration decorated in green and yellow glazes that were excavated from Raqqa. These are thought to date from the period when Haroun al-Rashid had his main residence there between 796 and 808 AD.