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Bowl

800-900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Samarra (found)
Samarra (made)
Iraq (made)

Bowl or small dish, pinkish-yellow coloured alluvial clay with inclusions, covered with a white slip, splashed or trailed with radial lines in copper green and brownish manganese, in an amber-coloured glaze, the slip is visible on the exterior. The glaze is much degraded. The bowl has been damaged and mended.


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Bowl
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, painted inside with coloured glaze
Earthenware
Painted
Glazed
Brief description
Bowl or small dish, earthenware, painted inside with radial stripes of green and purple-brown in an amber glaze in imitation of Chinese Changsha ware; Iraq (probably Samarra), 9th century.
Physical description
Bowl or small dish, pinkish-yellow coloured alluvial clay with inclusions, covered with a white slip, splashed or trailed with radial lines in copper green and brownish manganese, in an amber-coloured glaze, the slip is visible on the exterior. The glaze is much degraded. The bowl has been damaged and mended.
Dimensions
  • Height: 3.55cm
  • Diameter: 6.9cm
Diameter of flat base 4.4cm
Style
Abbasid
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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Credit line
Given by H.M. Government

The research, cataloguing and digitisation of the V&A's Samarra collection has been made possible by a pilot project grant from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (2013).
Production
register
Subject depicted
Stripes
Bibliographic references
  • Leisten, Thomas, Excavation of Samarra, Baghdader Forschungen 20, Vol. 1. Architecture: final report of the first campaign 1910-1912 (Mainz, 2003)
  • The Ernst Herzfeld papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives (FSA). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Series 7, Records of Samarra Expeditions, 1906-1945.
Other number
I-N 377 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
C.686-1922

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Record createdApril 6, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O221004/bowl-unknown/
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