Milk jar
Le Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia
Musée National du Bardo
Late 18th century
Ceramic
H. 45 cm, Ø 30 cm
Qallaline
This butter jar with a dagra lid has a spherical body and rests on a small pedestal. It is decorated with a polychromatic pattern, organised in rows. Medallion shapes filled with flowers cover the lower half of the body, and the lid is also densely decorated with flowers, and framed by a lattice.
"Milk jar " in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tn;14;en
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: TN 014
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