Provenance: Évora / College of Young Men’s Cathedral Choir.
Description: Terminologically called by pitcher, this piece is made, on the ornamental level by white paint, with rectiformes motifs lined horizontally, interspersed with other longer vertical ones, iconographically related to water courses - The Rivers of Paradise widely described in the Choran. This ornamental type appears in the first century AD in the western territory of the Iberian Peninsula and had great importance in the expression of indigenous medieval pottery. This “ink” is obtained by applying a limestone solution (calcite, lead chloride or magnesium silicate), substances easy to find in nature. The function of the piece seems to connect with the transport of liquid, which is suggested by the presence of two wings and narrow neck, which would be fundamental in the task of lifting and carrying without spilling. Chronologically fits the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus period, in the tenth century (929 - 1031 AD).
Texto by José Rui Santos
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