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Double-handled pot

Algeria

 

Collected by David Randall MacIver

Given to the Museum in 1900

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Double-handled pot, Algeria

This double handled pottery vessel has been painted brown, with black and yellow designs. It was made by a Kabyle Berber potter some time before 1900. The hand-painted designs include geometric motifs. Such motifs are extremely common in Berber design, and appear on pottery, textiles, and leather.

View database record 1900.38.36



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