Dish Fragment
15th century
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Fragment from the base of a dish with partial footrim, fritware or stonepaste siliceous body, covered with white slip and painted in cobalt blue with an interlaced pattern, the interstices filled in with striations forming wave patterns or hatched grounds, within line bands at the rim and glazed. The technique inspired by Chinese porcelain painted in cobalt blue under the glaze. The exterior also glazed with traces of cobalt.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, moulded, painted and glazed. |
| Brief description | Fragment from a blue and white ware dish; Iran (possibly Nishapur), 15th century. Found in Samarra. |
| Physical description | Fragment from the base of a dish with partial footrim, fritware or stonepaste siliceous body, covered with white slip and painted in cobalt blue with an interlaced pattern, the interstices filled in with striations forming wave patterns or hatched grounds, within line bands at the rim and glazed. The technique inspired by Chinese porcelain painted in cobalt blue under the glaze. The exterior also glazed with traces of cobalt. |
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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 in excavations. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.719-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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