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Duck shaped jar
(جرة على شكل بطة)

Title	Duck shaped jar
Title Original	جرة على شكل بطة
Publication Date:	AH 13th century / AD 19th century
Publication Place	- Batha Museum; Fez
Subject	Lacquered pottery, leaded enamel. — Potters in Fez or Meknes.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع: 14 سم؛ القطر: 22 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	46.1.1018
Record ID	object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;47;ar
Library Location	Batha Museum; Fez
Date	AH 13th century / AD 19th century
Notes	Description of the piece: This jar, with its rounded hollow, narrow neck, and wide, drooping lip with a pouring beak, resembles the Phoenician-Carthaginian jars called “jars with an obtuse head.” This type of jar, the duck, which was commonly used as a vessel for storing lamp oil in the 13th century AH (19th AD), was made in the cities of Fez and Meknes in many sizes. The jar is decorated with vertical grooves on its inside, and a band in the form of a thin rope. Other jars of the same style can also be decorated with two rows of small circles stamped above or below this strip. Green, enamelled, lead-containing jars such as this one were intended for the regions of southern Morocco, especially for the oases of Wadi Ziz. The potters of Fez used to make pots of the same shape for the markets of Medina, but with a more sophisticated polychrome decoration, based on floral and floral decorative elements from the Moroccan-Andalusian artistic record.
Sample Text	Naima El Khatib-Boujibar “Duck-shaped jar” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;47;ar

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Duck shaped jar

(جرة على شكل بطة)

Publication Date AH 13th century / AD 19th century

Publication Place - Batha Museum; Fez

Subject Lacquered pottery, leaded enamel. — Potters in Fez or Meknes.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع: 14 سم؛ القطر: 22 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 46.1.1018

Record ID object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;47;ar

Library Location Batha Museum; Fez

Date AH 13th century / AD 19th century

Notes Description of the piece: This jar, with its rounded hollow, narrow neck, and wide, drooping lip with a pouring beak, resembles the Phoenician-Carthaginian jars called “jars with an obtuse head.” This type of jar, the duck, which was commonly used as a vessel for storing lamp oil in the 13th century AH (19th AD), was made in the cities of Fez and Meknes in many sizes. The jar is decorated with vertical grooves on its inside, and a band in the form of a thin rope. Other jars of the same style can also be decorated with two rows of small circles stamped above or below this strip. Green, enamelled, lead-containing jars such as this one were intended for the regions of southern Morocco, especially for the oases of Wadi Ziz. The potters of Fez used to make pots of the same shape for the markets of Medina, but with a more sophisticated polychrome decoration, based on floral and floral decorative elements from the Moroccan-Andalusian artistic record.

Sample Text Naima El Khatib-Boujibar “Duck-shaped jar” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;47;ar