A FINE RAQQA TURQUOISE GLAZED POTTERY TILE, SYRIA, LATE 12TH CENTURY A FINE RAQQA TURQUOISE GLAZED POTTERY TILE, SYRIA, LATE 12TH CENTURY

A FINE RAQQA TURQUOISE GLAZED POTTERY TILE, SYRIA, LATE 12TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3005357

A pottery tile moulded and decorated with a rich vivid opalescent turquoise alkaline glaze, decorated in high relief with the word 'Allah' , the letter ' Lam' moulded as a trilobed palmette within raised line borders.
26.4 by 23 by 3.5 cm.

CATALOGUE NOTE
So-called Raqqa ware - which, over time, has come to refer to a wide range of pottery, including certain kinds of lustreware, underglaze painted wares, monochrome-glazed wares, and Laqabi and “Tell Minis” wares - has been the subject of several studies, especially in recent years. The city, located on the left bank of the Euphrates River in Syria, is one of the first archaeological sites where Islamic ceramics were excavated. It was once assumed that wares resembling the ones found at Raqqa were produced in that city and then travelled to other regions, such as Anatolia, Persia , and Egypt (for a summary of previous scholarship on Raqqa ware, see Jenkins-Madina 2006, pp. 7-8)