Storage Jar (1200s): Art, History and Details
Storage Jar at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1200s, fritware with glaze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Storage Jar (1200s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Where fine clay was unavailable, potters made a paste out of ground quartz, clay, and glass. When fired, the paste created a compact white material called fritware that approximated the appearance of porcelain.
Object facts
- Title: Storage Jar
- Date: 1200s
- Culture: Syria (Raqqa), Ayyubid Period
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: fritware with glaze
- Dimensions: Diameter of mouth: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.); Overall: 48.2 cm (19 in.); Diameter of base: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Department: Islamic Art
- Accession number: 1915.665
Collection credit
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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