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Title: Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Townsend, Horace, 1859-1922
Subjects: Tabbagh, (Émile) & Cie
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ower form in blue and green. This panel is surrounded by adouble border of pointed-leaf forms in white reserve on blue andof a Saracenic counter change pattern in green and white.Framed. No. 279SYRIO-EGYPTIAN FAIENCE EWER (Eighth Century) Height, 5% inches Pear-shaped body, slender cylindrical neck, looped handle andpointed lip. Invested with a fine crackled ivory-colored glaze anddecorated with a sunken band of strapwork scrollings in low re-lief. Silvery iridescence. No. 280RAKKA FAIENCE VASE (Twelfth Century) Height, 8 inches Pear-shaped vertically ribbed body, spreading foot and neck, andinversely scalloped rim. Invested with a turquoise-blue glazeappearing beneath incrustations and iridescence. No. 281RAKKA LUSTRED FAIENCE EWER (Ninth Century) Height, \V2 inches Pear-shaped and fluted body, cylindrical neck, spreading footand looped handle. Invested with a cream-colored glaze anddecorated, in brown lustre, with a band of inscription in cursivecharacters. Second and Last Afternoon
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No. 282 RAKKA LUSTKED FAIENCE VASE (Ninth Century) Height, 9 inches Pear-shaped, cylindrical neck and annular rim. Invested with acrackled cream-colored glaze stopping short of the base and deco-rated, in lust red brown and blue, as to the body and shoulderwith three bands of Arabic inscriptions in brown and two bandsof interlacements and spirals in white reserve, and as to the neck,with a band of Arabic inscription. Silvery iridescence. (Slightlyrestored.) Second and Last Afternoon No. 283 RHAGES LUSTRED FAIENCE BOWL (Twelfth Century) Height, 3% inches; diameter, 6% inches Straight-sided coupe shape. Invested with a yellow glaze anddecorated, as to the interior, with a band of cursive inscriptionsaround the rim in blue surrounded by a scrolled and palm-leafpattern in yellow reserve. The exterior is paneled with roughlydrawn scrolls. No. 284RAKKA LUSTRED FAIENCE VASE (Ninth Century) Height, 4*4 inches Pear-shaped body, with cylindrical neck and annular rim. In-vested with a cream-colo

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