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Bowl Fragment

9th century, 1902-1905 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Sevruguin, Antoin (photographer)
Place of origin
Samarra (made)
Iran (photographed)

Fragment of the rim of a bowl, earthenware of a pinky-buff calcareous clay with crushed frit, covered with a tin-opacified lead glaze and painted with short strokes of manganese-purple or aubergine pigment forming a triangular pattern. A few short strokes of purple are on the rim and exterior


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Bowl fragment
Materials and techniques
Thrown, tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Fragment of a bowl, opaque white ware with aubergine splashes; Iraq (Samarra), 9th century.
Physical description
Fragment of the rim of a bowl, earthenware of a pinky-buff calcareous clay with crushed frit, covered with a tin-opacified lead glaze and painted with short strokes of manganese-purple or aubergine pigment forming a triangular pattern. A few short strokes of purple are on the rim and exterior
Dimensions
  • Width: 10.1cm
  • Thickness: 0.8-1.2cm
Style
Abbasid
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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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 references
  • 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).
  • Wood, N., Doherty, C. and Rosser-Owen, M., “A technological study of Iraqi copies of Chinese Changsha and Chinese sancai wares found at Samarra", Gu Taoci Kexue Jishu (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics) 8 (2009): pp. 154-179.
  • Priestman, Seth M.N., 'Opaque glazed wares: the definition, dating and distribution of a key Iraqi ceramic export in the Abbasid period,' Iran XLIX (2011): 89-114.
  • 'Camera Orientalis' by Ali Behdad, University of Chicago Press. London and Chicago, 2016. Page 92.
Other number
I-N 942 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
C.629-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O339330/bowl-fragment-sevruguin-antoin/
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