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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bowl

1200-1250 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hemispherical bowl of glazed fritware with no decoration on the interior or the exterior. Vessel is slumped.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glazed fritware
Brief description
Waster of a hemispherical bowl, fritware, glazed; Syria (Raqqa), 1200-1250.
Physical description
Hemispherical bowl of glazed fritware with no decoration on the interior or the exterior. Vessel is slumped.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6cm
  • Diameter: 12.4cm
Style
Bibliographic reference
Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006), cat. no. W96, p. 88.
Collection
Accession number
C.108-1909

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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