Headlining the exhibition of highlights from Sotheby’s London October 3rd Arts of the Islamic World auction, will be a large and highly important 10th/11th century Fatimid white-ground lustre pottery jar, from Egypt. This exquisite jar belongs to a small group of surviving Fatimid lustre jars, published examples of which are presently in the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Benaki Museum, Athens, the Aga Khan Collection, Toronto, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The vast majority of extant Fatimid lustre pottery is fragmentary and intact pieces are exceptionally rare to market. This jar exemplifies the magnificence of the lustre pottery technique which reached its height in the eleventh century, reflecting the power and patronage of the Fatimid empire.
via Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Qatar.
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