Polychrome-glaze ware jar fragment (base sherd)
Medium:Ceramic (earthenware) with a polychrome glaze of antimony-yellow, copper-green & turquoise, manganese-purple and tin-white
Geography: al-Fustāt excavations, Egypt
Date: c. 975-1025 AD
Period: Fatimid Period
Object number: 988.117.50
Credit Line: Division of excavated material granted to the Royal Ontario Museum by the American Research Centre in Egypt, in appreciation of the contribution given to excavations conducted at Fustat, near Cairo, by George Scanlon.
DescriptionTypically ceramics have an overall glaze and are painted with different colours in various techniques. This type of ceramic is decorated by the application of different glazes *next* to each other. Petrographic analysis of this type has shown that it was made in the same production centre as the contemporary lustre-wares of Fatimid Egypt.
