Jar with Four Lug Handles

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9th century · Earthenware; painted in blue on opaque white glaze · Islamic Art

Abbasid artists sometimes applied the motifs and techniques developed in imitating imported Chinese stoneware bowls to other vessels, such as this jug. The decoration consists of a painted surface in green and cobalt blue on a white ground familiar from the imitated bowls. A cypress-like tree in green below each handle alternates with a foliate tree in blue. The motifs extend from the opening to halfway down the body and the entire composition bound at the base by a double line of scallops.

Artist

Unknown

Date

9th century

Medium

Earthenware; painted in blue on opaque white glaze

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1932