Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
A FATIMID MARBLE JAR STAND (KILGA), EGYPT, 10TH/11TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
October 27, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A FATIMID MARBLE JAR STAND (KILGA), EGYPT, 10TH/11TH CENTURY
of hollowed-out cylindrical form, with a rectangular trough and a central protruding element above, a half-column to either side, standing on four short feet
32 by 50 by 34cm.
Ex-collection Oliver Hoare (1945-2018), acquired from Christopher Gibbs, London, 23 May 2000.
Stands such as this were intended as supports for large unglazed terracotta water jars. The porous clay allowed water to seep slowly through the ovoid bottom of the jar, cooling and filtering the water which collected in the basin beneath. For a full discussion of marble jar-stands from Egypt see Elfriede R. Knauer's article in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol.14, 1979, pp.67-101.