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Jar with lid
(جرة ذات غطاء)

Title	Jar with lid
Title Original	جرة ذات غطاء
Publication Date:	Probably 13th/19th century
Publication Place	- Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archeology
Subject	Nonsense
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع: حوالي 21.3سم؛ قطر الفتحة: 10.5سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	B.S. 333
Record ID	object;ISL;se;Mus01;24;ar
Library Location	Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archeology
Date	Probably 13th/19th century
Notes	The spherical jar stands on a high pedestal, has a rimless cylindrical neck and a flat lid with a handle. The body is covered inside and out with an impermeable pale turquoise tin glaze, but this glaze is not thick enough at the bottom for the bright reddish color to show through. The abstract decoration consists mainly of a group of vertical bands alternating with dotted lines called the “thousand-footed” on the neck, and of scale shapes filled with half-carnations on the spherical part of the body. The annular base is unadorned. Colors were used: deep lemon yellow, two shades of brown, one light from iron oxide and the other dark from manganese, dark greenish blue, and copper green. The use of brown, yellow, blue and green colors as complete colors without mixing is one of the characteristics of the colors used on Moroccan decorated ceramics. It is obtained by firing for the first time and then applying a second layer of impermeable tin glaze to the pottery. The metallic colors used to draw the decorations are applied to the dry glaze, and during the second firing process the glaze melts with the colors. The large and small red dots spread randomly on the surface of the jar and its lid are considered a striking feature. To look at, it is a red lead-based paste applied to the glaze with finger touches. After drying, the paste looks like red wax. However, this type of decoration does not appear to have been carried out by the potters themselves, but rather by sellers of decorated ceramics to hide the traces of the carrier on the dishes in the first place and then on all the vessels later. Decorated ceramics are considered one of the types of ceramics used in the cities of Morocco, in which Fez was the most important center of production. The tools made by decorative potters were generally practical for everyday use, and it is possible that this jar was used to store ghee or butter, but, unlike other examples of storage jars, this jar does not have the usual handles.
Sample Text	Friederike Voigt “Jar with lid” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;24;ar

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Jar with lid

(جرة ذات غطاء)

Publication Date Probably 13th/19th century

Publication Place - Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archeology

Subject Nonsense

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع: حوالي 21.3سم؛ قطر الفتحة: 10.5سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID B.S. 333

Record ID object;ISL;se;Mus01;24;ar

Library Location Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archeology

Date Probably 13th/19th century

Notes The spherical jar stands on a high pedestal, has a rimless cylindrical neck and a flat lid with a handle. The body is covered inside and out with an impermeable pale turquoise tin glaze, but this glaze is not thick enough at the bottom for the bright reddish color to show through. The abstract decoration consists mainly of a group of vertical bands alternating with dotted lines called the “thousand-footed” on the neck, and of scale shapes filled with half-carnations on the spherical part of the body. The annular base is unadorned. Colors were used: deep lemon yellow, two shades of brown, one light from iron oxide and the other dark from manganese, dark greenish blue, and copper green. The use of brown, yellow, blue and green colors as complete colors without mixing is one of the characteristics of the colors used on Moroccan decorated ceramics. It is obtained by firing for the first time and then applying a second layer of impermeable tin glaze to the pottery. The metallic colors used to draw the decorations are applied to the dry glaze, and during the second firing process the glaze melts with the colors. The large and small red dots spread randomly on the surface of the jar and its lid are considered a striking feature. To look at, it is a red lead-based paste applied to the glaze with finger touches. After drying, the paste looks like red wax. However, this type of decoration does not appear to have been carried out by the potters themselves, but rather by sellers of decorated ceramics to hide the traces of the carrier on the dishes in the first place and then on all the vessels later. Decorated ceramics are considered one of the types of ceramics used in the cities of Morocco, in which Fez was the most important center of production. The tools made by decorative potters were generally practical for everyday use, and it is possible that this jar was used to store ghee or butter, but, unlike other examples of storage jars, this jar does not have the usual handles.

Sample Text Friederike Voigt “Jar with lid” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;24;ar