Jar, late 12th–first half 13th century, Made in Syria, Raqqa, Stonepaste; underglaze painted in blue, luster-painted on

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Jar, late 12th–first half 13th century, Made in Syria, Raqqa, Stonepaste; underglaze painted in blue, luster-painted on transparent glaze, H. 9 3/8 in. ( cm), Ceramics, Nineteenth-century antiquarians’ fascination with The Thousand and One Nights and its 9th-century protagonist, Harun al Rashid, provoked interest in the Syrian city of Raqqa, where this Abbasid caliph once resided, and in the ceramics unearthed there

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