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Production: Unknown
A group of fragments, comprising 19 groups of various ware including:
Mamluk pottery
Ayyubid potter
Hispano-Moresque lustre ware
Sultanabad or Mesopotamia wares
"Crusader" ware (Byzantine?)
North African Ware
Orvieto ware
Chinese celadons
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1948) by Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
Accession number: C.18-1948
Primary reference Number: 72697
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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