Note 64 — POTTERY

The watersellers' Ordinance of 1516 enacts that each of these vendors shall carry a minimum load of six cántaros, and that the cántaros themselves shall be “of the round shape, and not the Moorish ones, as these have long spouts; each cántaro to be closed with a cork.” The latter is the typical pitcher of Morocco. “As we were talking, neighbours dropped in, in the familiar Eastern way, and sat quiet and self-contained, occasionally drinking from one of the two long-necked and porous water-jars, known as ‘Baradas’ or the ‘coolers,’ which stand, their wooden stoppers tied to them with a palmetto cord, on each side the divan.”—Cunninghame Graham, Mogreb-el-Acksa, p. 88.