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The Potteries of Persia : being a brief history of the art of ceramics in the Near East (1909)

Kelekian, Dikran G., 1868-1951 · Paris : H. Clarke · leaf 19

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Figure / 2 —Rhages Bowl. Thirteenth Century. As far as we have any records, therefore, the Fostat potteries antedate the Persian. They were made for the most part, it appears, by Arabian and Syrian workers, who had either emigrated there or been taken as prisoners and kept because of their skill to…

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