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An image of Description: Pale buff stone-paste (fritware) covered with a wash of white slip and decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise and sage-green, outlined in black, under a clear glaze. On one side, a border of split-palmette arabesques, reserved on a cobalt-blue ground between turquoise lines. The rest of the surface is covered with a repeating design of arabesque medallions and palmettes linked by scrolling stems bearing small saz leaves.
Production Place: Syria, Damascus
Dimensions: height: (whole): 29.5 cm, width: (whole): 30.2 cm
Date: 1560 to 1630

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Description: Pale buff stone-paste (fritware) covered with a wash of white slip and decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise and sage-green, outlined in black, under a clear glaze. On one side, a border of split-palmette arabesques, reserved on a cobalt-blue ground between turquoise lines. The rest of the surface is covered with a repeating design of arabesque medallions and palmettes linked by scrolling stems bearing small saz leaves. Production Place: Syria, Damascus Dimensions: height: (whole): 29.5 cm, width: (whole): 30.2 cm Date: 1560 to 1630

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  • Accession Number: C.24-1911
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 758 pixels
  • Image width: 760 pixels
  • Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
  • Filesize: 124.37kB

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