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Ceramics from the Musi River 5

K839.
Bottle, foot ring small with slightly splayed recessed base.
K2646. H: 9.8. Greater Iran, Frit ware. C9. Found at Palembang,
Bottle, moderate foot ring with flat base. H: 4.2. Central Musi River.
Thailand, Si Satchanalai ware. C14–C16. Found at
Palembang, Musi River, Batu Ampar.

MIDDLE EAST GLAZED

K1627.
Amphora, foot ring absent, base flat, glaze pink speckled
with white, degraded, some fragments reglued. H: 15.8.
Probably Middle East. C10. Found at Palembang, Musi
River.

K755.
Vase, crudely potted, base elongate with flat base, two
lugs, neck missing–upper ‘rim’ ground down. H: 12.6. K1916.
C 10. Found at Palembang, Musi River Bowl, decorated with pale grey elongate five pronged
striped star pattern in cavetto (possibly produced by
a copper over-glaze painted through a leather stencil
and later degraded by the river or lost by over firing in
kiln, upper rim repaired. H: 3.3; D: 12.6. Probably Iraq,
Abbasid, Lustre ware. C10. Found at Palembang, Musi
River, Sungai Guci.

K821.
Vase, Foot ring tall with flat base, degraded reddish brown
glaze with turquoise spots, right handle and both upper
rim and base rim repaired. H: 13.2. Middle East. C10.
Found at Palembang, Musi River.
K2497.

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