Cup
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Flat bottomed bowl (missing two thirds of rim), pinkish-buff earthenware, covered in white slip and an amber-coloured glaze in imitation of Chinese Changsha glaze
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, glazed |
| Brief description | Fragment of a cup, earthenware, amber glazed in imitation of Chinese Changsha ware; Iraq (probably Baghdad), 9th century. Found at Samarra. |
| Physical description | Flat bottomed bowl (missing two thirds of rim), pinkish-buff earthenware, covered in white slip and an amber-coloured glaze in imitation of Chinese Changsha glaze |
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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 |
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| Accession number | C.696-1922 |
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| Record created | April 6, 2009 |
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