Fragment
9th century
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Fragment of the rim of a carinated bowl, fine pinkish-buff alluvial clay body with glass inclusions, covered with a tin-opacified white glaze, painted with splashes of copper green, repeated on the exterior, in imitation of Chinese Changsha ware.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, glazed, painted |
| Brief description | Fragment of a bowl, white ware, splashed in green in imitation of Chinese Changsha ware; Iraq (probably Baghdad), 9th century. |
| Physical description | Fragment of the rim of a carinated bowl, fine pinkish-buff alluvial clay body with glass inclusions, covered with a tin-opacified white glaze, painted with splashes of copper green, repeated on the exterior, in imitation of Chinese Changsha ware. |
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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 | Wood, N., Doherty, C. and Rosser-Owen, M., “A technological study of Iraqi copies of Chinese Changsha and Chinese sancai wares found at Samarra", Gu Taoci Kexue Jishu (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ancient
Ceramics) 8 (2009): pp. 154-179. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.693-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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