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2080. One square Tile. Arabic.

One a white ground covered with clear glaze, a large flower bowl in dark rests upon a pale greenish-blue ground. From the center of the bowl rises an Arabic inscription reading: Ma-Sha-el-lah. ta-e-lah. "What the highest God wishes.” At each of the four corners flowers are projected toward the center; those at the two upper corners are in blue; those at the two lower corners are in yellow. The paste is gray and heavy.
Size, 9" X 9".
Taken from an ancient house in Jerusalem. 

Purchased from N. Chan, Jerusalem, through K. Katen, New York, Voucher #45, May 1910.

10.00

[[stamp]] REJECTED [[/stamp]] [[checkmark]]

2081. One Fragment of a Bowl. Excavated at the Village of Danriah, near Hebron in Palestine. 

Soft white paste. 
White, translucent glaze, crackled; rich silvery-purple iridescence. 
The interior is decorated with floral and geometrical designed in lapis-blue and black. 
The exterior has a broad, encircling band of squares in blue outline. One-half of these squares have diaper designs in fine, black lines; the alternating squares contain two diagonal black lines which cross each other at the center of the space. On the unglazed base an inscription in Cufic in black divided by three blue bands.
Much of the bowl is missing.
Height, 3 5/8".

Purchased from N. Chan, Jerusalem, through K. Katen, New York, Voucher #45, May 1910.

10.00

[[stamp]] REJECTED. [[/stamp]] [[checkmark]]

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