The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Ewer Inscribed with "al-'izz" ("Glory") in Floriated Kufic on its Neck

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Ewer Inscribed with "al-'izz" ("Glory") in Floriated Kufic on its Neck

Object Name:: Ewer
Date:: first half 13th century
Geography:: Syria, Raqqa
Medium:: Stonepaste; painted in luster and blue on opaque white glaze under transparent glaze
Dimensions:: H. 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm); Gr. Diam. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1948
Accession Number:: 48.113.18

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Kouchakji Frères, Paris and New York, until 1918; their sale ,Anderson Galleries, New York, March 8–9, 1918, lot 308, to Brummer; [ Joseph Brummer, from 1918]; H. O. Havemeyer Collection, New York (by 1931–48)
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Ceramics (29,320)

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A.D. 1000-1400 (7,084)
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