. Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty. neck. Invested with an ivory-colored glaze and decorated, in gray with touches of red enamel,as to the body with eight panels bordered in red and enclosingscrolled and diapered patternings, as to the shoulder with aband of interlacements, and as to the neck with a honeycombdiapered pattern with center of green and red, interrupted bycircular medallions bordered with red. (Illustrated) Xo. 289RHAGES FAIEXCE BOWL (Eleventh
. Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty. neck. Invested with an ivory-colored glaze and decorated, in gray with touches of red enamel,as to the body with eight panels bordered in red and enclosingscrolled and diapered patternings, as to the shoulder with aband of interlacements, and as to the neck with a honeycombdiapered pattern with center of green and red, interrupted bycircular medallions bordered with red. (Illustrated) Xo. 289RHAGES FAIEXCE BOWL (Eleventh Century) Height, .* inches; diameter, T% inches Coupe-shaped, with curved sides and annular foot. Invested withan ivory-colored glaze and decorated, as to the center of the in-terior, in blue, black, red and gold, with the figure of a queen onhorseback, encircled by four winged sphinxes in yellow withwomens heads separated by medallions of interlacements. Aroundthe inner rim is a border in black and blue based on Cufic char-acters, and the edge is decoratid with a scalloped band in the interior is a band of Cufic characters in black onn hite. (Illustrated).
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