{"id":2239,"date":"2008-09-12T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2008-09-12T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T08:30:06","slug":"rare-fatimitd-era-jug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2008\/09\/12\/rare-fatimitd-era-jug\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Fatimitd era Jug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/fatimid_ewer.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2238 alignleft\" title=\"fatimid_ewer\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/fatimid_ewer.jpg?resize=455%2C606\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"606\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<strong>LONDON, Sept 11<\/strong>: A rare crystal jug belonging to Egypt\u2019s Fatimid dynasty and mistaken earlier this year for a cheap French claret pitcher, is expected to sell for millions of pounds at auction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\nThe 1,000-year-old rock crystal ewer -one of only seven of its kind known to exist -is the highlight of Christie\u2019s Oct 7 sale of Islamic and Indian art, with an estimated price of at least three million pounds.<\/p>\n<p>But in January Lawrences auction house in southwest England identified it as a 19th-century French claret jug and offered it for sale for 100 to 200 pounds ($175 to $350).<\/p>\n<p>Some collectors sensed it was more special than that. After a bidding war, the jug sold for 220,000 pounds ($385,000), more than 1,000 times the list price.<\/p>\n<p>Christie\u2019s said it has now been identified as \u201cone of the rarest and most desirable works of art from the Islamic world\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/2008\/09\/12\/int15.htm\" target=\"_blank\">MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0LONDON, Sept 11: A rare crystal jug belonging to Egypt\u2019s Fatimid dynasty and mistaken earlier this year for a cheap French claret pitcher, is expected to sell for millions of pounds at auction. The 1,000-year-old rock crystal ewer -one of only seven of its kind known to exist -is the highlight of Christie\u2019s Oct 7 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[97,4781,34],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","tag-fatimid","tag-gilgit-baltistan","tag-ismaili"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}