Two swollen clay potteries with two handles and painted with - Lot 186

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Two swollen clay potteries with two handles and painted with - Lot 186
Two swollen clay potteries with two handles and painted with stylized geometric motifs. Women's work, probably Kabylie. Traces of soot, wear. Height: 32 cm and 41 cm when viewed Pottery is shaped in clay, then painted with geometric motifs of ancient symbolism in manganese oxide (brown) on a beige or iron-red kaolin slip. They are then fired in hearths generally dug into the ground at medium temperature (around 800°c). The best-quality clay from the Petite Kabylie region (Djemila) can be fired at higher temperatures (900 to 1000°c). Ref. Algérie, mémoire de femmes au fil des doigts, Pavillon des arts 2003, Somogy. Les grands symboles méditerranéens dans la poterie algérienne, J.B. Moreau, Algiers, 1976.
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