Pottery

Urn

29-201-145

From: Morocco

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-201-145
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Morocco
Section African
Materials Ceramic
Technique Glazed
Description

Pottery; white glaze on exterior and on rim interior, with blue, green (turquoise), yellow and a little brown. Foot has short stem rising from dome-shaped base; body rounded to low offset band, then nearly vertical to flaring rim with overhanging edge. Two pseudo ring handles below rim. Floral band on top of rim and on handles; panels alternately of large concentric diamond motifs and of zigzag bands on upper body; panels with recurved top and enclosing flowers on lower body; band of ellipses on stem; two bands of continuous diamonds above and below a band of diamonds within ellipses.

Height 35.6 cm
Depth 34 cm
Credit Line Williams Moroccan Expedition; Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898

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