Bowl Fragment
9th century
| Place of origin |
Fragment from the base of a bowl, of fine yellow Tigris/Euphrates alluvial clay, covered in a tin-opacified lead glaze painted with an identified Kufic inscription in cobalt blue. the galze much degraded.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, glazed and painted. |
| Brief description | Fragment from a bowl, white ware with Kufic inscription in blue; Iraq (probably Basra), 9th century. |
| Physical description | Fragment from the base of a bowl, of fine yellow Tigris/Euphrates alluvial clay, covered in a tin-opacified lead glaze painted with an identified Kufic inscription in cobalt blue. the galze much degraded. |
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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 reference | 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) |
| Other number | I-N 841 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.712-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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