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AN ALMOHAD CUERDA SECA POTTERY BOWL
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AN ALMOHAD CUERDA SECA POTTERY BOWL

PROBABLY ALMERIA, SOUTHERN SPAIN, 12TH CENTURY

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AN ALMOHAD CUERDA SECA POTTERY BOWL
PROBABLY ALMERIA, SOUTHERN SPAIN, 12TH CENTURY
Of rounded form with everted lip on short foot, the interior with off-white ground decorated with green glazed scrolling tendrils and arabesques terminating in green, manganese and ochre palmettes, lobed motifs around the rim, the exterior glazed plain pale ochre, repaired breaks, glaze flaking in a few areas
9½in. (24cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

This is a remarkably complete bowl of a type that is generally only known in fragments. Similar vessels were excavated in the citadel at Malaga (Luis M. Llubiá, Ceramica medieval española, Barcelona, 1967, pls.87-90, pp.71-2; Dorothea Duda, Spanisch-Islamische Keramik aus Almeria vom 12. bis 15. Jahrhundert, Heidelberg, 1970, pls. 6 and 7, esp.pl.7a, no.18)

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