Bowl Fragment
9th century (made)
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Fragment of an open vessel or bowl, of pink-coloured alluvial clay, thrown, covered with a thin opaque white slip, and painted in copper green and purple manganese with a series of dotted lines, the green are more abundant and larger applied with a different tool or brush, whereas the purple are finer and more circular in only two lines near the cavetto, under a clear glaze. It has a small rivetted hole, so repaired at some point in its history.
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Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, painted and glazed |
Brief description | Fragment of a vessel, earthenware, painted with rows of dots in green and purple; Iraq (probably Samarra), 9th century. |
Physical description | Fragment of an open vessel or bowl, of pink-coloured alluvial clay, thrown, covered with a thin opaque white slip, and painted in copper green and purple manganese with a series of dotted lines, the green are more abundant and larger applied with a different tool or brush, whereas the purple are finer and more circular in only two lines near the cavetto, under a clear glaze. It has a small rivetted hole, so repaired at some point in its history. |
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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). |
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Accession number | C.672-1922 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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