Set of four swollen clay pots with one or two handles and pa - Lot 187

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Set of four swollen clay pots with one or two handles and pa - Lot 187
Set of four swollen clay pots with one or two handles and painted with stylized geometric motifs. Made by women, probably in Kabylia. Cracks Height: 22.5; 21; 17 and 14.5 cm at sight The 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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