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

Lid

1000-1200 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lid of earthenware, covered with a tin-glaze and painted in yellow lustre with two triangles intersecting to form a six pointed star.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in lustre
Brief description
Fragment from a lid, earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in lustre, Syria or Egypt, 1000-1200.
Physical description
Lid of earthenware, covered with a tin-glaze and painted in yellow lustre with two triangles intersecting to form a six pointed star.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 7.6cm
Credit line
Given by Harold Wallis, Esq.
Production
Registers not seen
Collection
Accession number
C.561-1917

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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