Publication Date
Year 751 - 757 AH / 1351 - 1356 AD
Publication Place
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Batha Museum; Fez
Subject
Pieces of pottery, coloured, enamelled and engraved.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 28 سم؛ الطول : 47 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
C18
Record ID
object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;27;ar
Library Location
Batha Museum; Fez
Date
Year 751 - 757 AH / 1351 - 1356 AD
Notes
This piece represents a wall covering, which forms a model of carved or hollowed-out zellige mosaic. This technique was used to introduce the curved script - naskhi - into pottery decoration, in particular to copy inscriptions and floral decorations. The artists often used black enamelled tiles, cutting, with a flat hammer and often with great skill, the enamelled face, so that the pottery would appear only in the place designated for it as a background for the decorative composition, and thus, the curved vegetal and calligraphic shapes stand out in simple relief over a background of ocher-coloured pottery. In this piece, within a braided frame, letters interspersed with branches of lilac and spotted With root nodes to form bilateral palmettes and florets. The cursive inscription reproduces a religious phrase, the remaining text of which includes: “… to me is the Lord of my servants.” This type of inscription band, which was present in the Al-Bu’naniyah Madrasa, runs above the pottery coverings and under the frieze of geometric decorative elements called balconies (similar to balconies), which form a decorative form that allows the craftsman to move from decorative compositions that depend on glaze to those composed of wall frescoes.
Sample Text
Naima El Khatib-Boujibar “An engraved and enamelled zellij panel” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;27;ar
