THE JAR PROBABLY 18TH/19TH CENTURY, THE INSCRIPTION RECENT

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A LARGE FATIMID STYLE MARBLE WATER JAR
THE JAR PROBABLY 18TH/19TH CENTURY, THE INSCRIPTION RECENT
Of facetted ovoid form, with everted rim, a calligraphic register in pseudo kufic script to the shoulder, gadrooned loop handels to either sides, repaired
21 3/8.in. (55cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The jar above is a modern interpretation of earthenware jars into which the water of the Nile was poured and through whose porous bodies the water was filtered. The water would collect at the bottom and trickle into the protruding basin of its stand, a kilga, thus also cooling it.
A rare exaqmple of a kilga and its jar sold at Christie's London, 25 April 2013, lot 85.

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