Faience pottery tile
Zilidj, balata khazafia
Algiers, Algeria
Musée Public National des Antiquités
About National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algiers
19th century
The ateliers in Delft
II.C.982
Ceramic, enamel
13 x 12 cm
Delft, Hollande
This faience pottery tile is painted with a ship in a circle in its centre, surrounded by flying birds. The rest of the zelige tile is decorated with a stylised floral pattern in each of its four corners.
Les Carreaux de Faïence
Houria Cherid "Faience pottery tile " in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;dz;67;en
Prepared by: Houria Cherid
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: DZ 153
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