Dish Fragment
14th century
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Fragments from the rim of a dish, white siliceous paste ( stonepaste or fritware), covered in white slip and painted in manganese black and cobalt blue in imitation of Chinese Yuan period porcelain, the rim with a continuous scrolling lotus band painted in blue bordered by fine line bands in black and a broad black band along the rim edge. The blue has flowed during firing in the transparent colourless alkaline glaze. The four sections have been mended to form one.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silicieous stonepaste, moulded, painted and glazed |
| Brief description | Fragments from the rim of a dish, stonepaste or fritware, painted in underglaze blue and black after a Chinese Yuan period porcelain prototype; Syria (probably Damascus), 14th century. |
| Physical description | Fragments from the rim of a dish, white siliceous paste ( stonepaste or fritware), covered in white slip and painted in manganese black and cobalt blue in imitation of Chinese Yuan period porcelain, the rim with a continuous scrolling lotus band painted in blue bordered by fine line bands in black and a broad black band along the rim edge. The blue has flowed during firing in the transparent colourless alkaline glaze. The four sections have been mended to form one. |
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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). |
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| Accession number | C.698-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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