Basra Blue-and-Turquoise Jug

كوز بصري أزرق

Earthenware Jug painted with Blue and Turquoise; Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1960.277.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation

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A pottery ewer with blue and turquoise slip; ninth century, Abbasid Basra, among the earliest blue-glazed pottery. In the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1

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Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “Basra Blue-and-Turquoise Jug”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/kuz-basra-azraq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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