Bowl Fragment
9th century
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Fragment from the body of a bowl, fine yellow-coloured alluvial clay body, covered with a tin-opacified white glaze which is slightly green-tinged on the exterior, surface painted in bichrome lustre, with a different colour on each side, the interior with cursively inscribed roundels filled in with peacock eye motifsr and the exterior with brown lustre roundels.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, glazed, lustred |
| Brief description | Fragment from a bowl, earthenware, white glazed and painted with bichrome lustre; Iraq (probably Basra), 9th century. Found in Samarra. |
| Physical description | Fragment from the body of a bowl, fine yellow-coloured alluvial clay body, covered with a tin-opacified white glaze which is slightly green-tinged on the exterior, surface painted in bichrome lustre, with a different colour on each side, the interior with cursively inscribed roundels filled in with peacock eye motifsr and the exterior with brown lustre roundels. |
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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). |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.677-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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