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Vessels for containing liquids were often provided with filters as an integral
element. These are often perforated with geometric or figurative designs. Their
purpose was to keep foreign objects and insects out of the vessels. There are few
surviving complete examples; those shown here from the collection of the Islamic
Ceramics Museum, Cairo, are fragmentary. They date from the 11th and 12th
centuries CE. Their provenance is not documented, but it was most certainly
Fustat.
el/cesras/17.07.07 cesras photos by Sergej V. Ivanov 01.07
element. These are often perforated with geometric or figurative designs. Their
purpose was to keep foreign objects and insects out of the vessels. There are few
surviving complete examples; those shown here from the collection of the Islamic
Ceramics Museum, Cairo, are fragmentary. They date from the 11th and 12th
centuries CE. Their provenance is not documented, but it was most certainly
Fustat.
el/cesras/17.07.07 cesras photos by Sergej V. Ivanov 01.07
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objects on this new site. Images should be 550 dpi in height.
Contact us at admin@cesras.org