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Topic: Doing things RIGHT(x-post from elsewhere)
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Ziad
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posted 07-21-2001 03:43 PM
   
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Once again, though we have heard it time after time after time - just because they lived a long time ago didn't mean they didn't know what they were doing.
Case in point. I just bought two costrels (canteens) in white earthenware. Duplicates of some that I had seen in the Sackler Gallery in DC. Funny looking necks... think I will rinse them out. So I rinse them, and when pouring out the water - GOOD GRIEF! They POUR! No glug, glug, no surges, no dribbles, just a straight stream! I want to patent that neck!So... yes, whenever practical, do it the Period Way. It will work better in the long run, because they did know what they were doing. PS - they are made out of a porous white earthenware that sweats slightly, then evaporates - you would have cool water in the warmest weather. I am not surprised, just impressed. Ziad ------------------
De gustibus non disputandam est -------------------- De gustibus non disputandam est.
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Gwen
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posted 07-21-2001 05:35 PM
I read your original post over on the AA. I'm glad you posted this here, because now I can ask you questions:*What piece is your costrel copied from?
*What period?
*Country of origin?
*Can we see pictures of this amazing item?
*Are they available for sale somewhere, or did you have it custom fabricated? Thanks for the info! Gwen
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Ziad
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posted 07-22-2001 05:10 AM
As far as iron-clad provenance for them, I can't give it. I am working from my (admittedly fallible) memory, of Islamic items of the ?10th-?14th centuries in various musea. I found these in a local ceramica shop here in Andalucia. They only had two, but if more show up I will have to grab them as well. Gwen - if you will send me your snail-mail address, I can send you one and let you make up your mind on it. I just don't have the resources here to check them out properly. In Service
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Gwen
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posted 07-22-2001 06:08 PM
Hi Ziad-Thanks for your very kind offer, but I'll have to pass if you think they are of Islamic origin. When you said the Sackler Gallery, I thought you were referring to something European. I'd think someone who is doing Middle Eastern or Spanish would snap them up in a heartbeat. Thanks anyway! Gwen
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