A rare early Raqqa moulded lustre pottery Jar Fatimid Syria, 12th CenturyA rare early Raqqa moulded lustre pottery Jar Fatimid Syria, 12th Centuryof inverted piriform with tapering neck and everted rim, moulded with four rectangular panels containing foliate tendrils, all under a turquoise glaze highlighted in a golden-grown lustre 31.3 cm. highFor a very similar jar with lustre decoration under a turquoise glaze in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York see Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Raqqa Revisited, New York, 2006, p. 123, cat MMA8 (Accession no. 38.84.2). Another is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.2002.1.229). A Raqqa moulded pottery vase of similar form was sold at Christie's, Islamic Art and Manuscripts, 15 October 2002, lot 22.