Tile
9th century
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Tile fragment, coarse yellow-buff earthenware with many airholes, covered with white slip and lead glaze. The surface painted with a dark-brown metallic lustre with a scrolling vegetal design
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, glazed and lustre-painted |
| Brief description | Tile fragment, earthenware, lustre-painted with a floral motif; Iraq (Samarra), 9th century. |
| Physical description | Tile fragment, coarse yellow-buff earthenware with many airholes, covered with white slip and lead glaze. The surface painted with a dark-brown metallic lustre with a scrolling vegetal design |
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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). |
| Production | Register |
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| Other number | I-N 891 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.622-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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