Pottery

Urn

29-201-144

From: Morocco

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-201-144
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Morocco
Section African
Materials Ceramic
Description

Pottery; white glaze on exterior and on rim interior, with blue, green (turquoise), yellow and a little brown. Foot has short stem rising from dome-shaped base; body rounded to low offset band, then nearly vertical to flaring rim with overhanging edge. Two pseudo ring handles below rim. Decoration is stylized floral; band on top of rim and on handles; large medallions on upper body, panels on lower body, ellipses and dots on stem; two floral bands and a band of narrow panels, some with dots, on foot.

Height 36.8 cm
Depth 33.8 cm
Credit Line Williams Moroccan Expedition; Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898

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