Today’s highlight from the Permanent Collection

Glazed bowl
Hegira 6th century / AD 12th century, Almoravid or Almohad
Ceramic made from medium-grained orange-coloured paste, modelled on a potter’s wheel, fired in an oxidising atmosphere and glazed using the cuerda seca technique throughout
Museum of Mértola

Mértola, Beja, Portugal

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