Bowl
9th century (made)
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Bowl or small dish with flat base, buff-yellow coloured alluvial clay with inclusions, covered with a tin-opacified white glaze, splashed or trailed with radial lines in copper green, the slip is visible on the exterior.The decoration imitates Chinese sancai wares. The glaze is much degraded. The bowl has been damaged and mended.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, glazed and painted |
| Brief description | Bowl or small dish, white ware, painted with green radial stripes in imitation of Chinese sancai ware; Iraq (probably Samarra), 9th century. |
| Physical description | Bowl or small dish with flat base, buff-yellow coloured alluvial clay with inclusions, covered with a tin-opacified white glaze, splashed or trailed with radial lines in copper green, the slip is visible on the exterior.The decoration imitates Chinese sancai wares. The glaze is much degraded. The bowl has been damaged and mended. |
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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). |
| Object history | Found at Samarra. The bowl is complete with the exception of part of the rim. |
| Production | register |
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| Bibliographic reference | 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 | |
| Accession number | C.687-1922 |
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| Record created | April 6, 2009 |
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