Dish Fragment
9th century
| Place of origin |
Fragment from a dish or vessel, pinkish-red alluvial clay body, moulded in relief in imitation of precious metalware, with part of a Kufic inscription contained in a raised panel with a dotted ground, along with the fluted edge of another design motif. Covered in a tin-opacified lead glaze under a translucent yellow glaze with turquoise details, the reverse also glazed but without raised decoration.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, relief moulded and glazed |
| Brief description | Fragment from a polychome glazed and relief-moulded dish imitating metalware; Iraq (Samarra), 9th century. |
| Physical description | Fragment from a dish or vessel, pinkish-red alluvial clay body, moulded in relief in imitation of precious metalware, with part of a Kufic inscription contained in a raised panel with a dotted ground, along with the fluted edge of another design motif. Covered in a tin-opacified lead glaze under a translucent yellow glaze with turquoise details, the reverse also glazed but without raised decoration. |
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| Credit line | 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). |
| Bibliographic reference | Sarre, Friedrich, Ernst Herzfeld and Hans Arnold, Die Keramik von Samarra. Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra II , Forschungen zur islamischen Kunst, Abt. 2, Bd. 2 (Berlin: Verlag von D. Reimer, 1925). |
| Other number | I-N 967 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.707-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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