pitcher

earthenware ceramic

height 8 1/2 in.

Berber people

Algeria

antique, circa 1920s

purchased in Djemila, Algeria, by Jack Daulton

References:

L’Art Populaire, Nouvelles Acquisitions 2003-2004 (Algiers: Musée National des Arts & Traditions Populaires, 2004).  Four examples of this style of pottery are illustrated at pages 49-50; on the top of page 50, a pot of this specific form is shown.

Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1996), pgs. 89-127 (chapter on "Pottery").