CIRCA 10TH CENTURY

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A SYRIAN UNGLAZED POTTERY STORAGE JAR (HABB)
CIRCA 10TH CENTURY
With elongated rounded body rising to a large cylindrical neck and mouth, decorated with bands of lightly incised decoration, three loop handles around the shoulder linked by applied bands, one panel on the neck with a more complex design of large applied rosettes surrounded by impressed small floral motifs, a similar more pronounced flowerhead at the top of this panel, repaired clean breaks
34¼in. (87cm.) high

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拍品專文

This basic amphora shape can be seen in unglazed ceramics since Phoenician times. A similar but smaller and less decorated jar with elongated mouth and some incised decoration can be found in the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, which is datable from the eighth to tenth century (Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, Cat.As.10, p.102). The form developed into a more ornamented form such as one sold in these Rooms and now in the Institut du Monde Arabe (10 October 1991, lot 199).