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Dish Fragment

1200-1250, 1902-1905 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Sevruguin, Antoin (photographer)
Place of origin
Syria (made)
Iran (photographed)

Fragment from the base of a dish, coarse yellow-buff coloured alluvial clay, with splayed ring foot, covered in white slip and painted in manganese black with a roundel having a foliate or vegetal device, covered with a translucent alkaline translucent glaze. Around the roundel are traces of three spur marks, evidence that the object was stacked in the kiln. Two fragments have been bonded to form a larger fragment. The exterior unglazed.


Object details

Object type
Dish fragment
Brief description
Fragment from a bowl, black foliate scroll under a turquoise glaze; Syria (possibly Raqqa), 1200-1300. Found in Samarra.
Physical description
Fragment from the base of a dish, coarse yellow-buff coloured alluvial clay, with splayed ring foot, covered in white slip and painted in manganese black with a roundel having a foliate or vegetal device, covered with a translucent alkaline translucent glaze. Around the roundel are traces of three spur marks, evidence that the object was stacked in the kiln. Two fragments have been bonded to form a larger fragment. The exterior unglazed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 2.7cm
  • Diameter: 7.3-10.75cm
Styles
Seljuk
Ilkhanid
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).
Object history
Found in Samarra during excavations.
Bibliographic references
  • Leisten, Thomas, Excavation of Samarra, Baghdader Forschungen 20, Vol. 1. Architecture: final report of the first campaign 1910-1912 (Mainz, 2003)
  • Northedge, Alastair; Bamber, Andrea; and Roaf, Michael, 'Excavations at 'Ana: Qal'a Island', Iraq Archaeological Reports, No. I : Warminster, Wiltshire, 1988.
  • 'Camera Orientalis' by Ali Behdad, University of Chicago Press. London and Chicago, 2016. Page 92.
Other number
I-N 436 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
C.732-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O339406/dish-fragment-sevruguin-antoin/
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