Lustre-ware albarello
Medium:Ceramic (stonepaste), with alkali glaze and over-glaze lustre-painted decoration)
Geography: al-Raqqa, Syria
Date: 1200-1250 AD
Period: Ayyubid Period
Object number: 959.187.41
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Helen Norton
Gallery Location:Wirth Gallery of the Middle East
DescriptionLustre-ware pottery is a unique contribution of the ceramicists of the Islamic world. This one is typical of production at the site of al-Raqqa, in eastern Syria, in the first half of the 13th century.
