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Bowl Fragment

9th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Category
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Length: 12cm
  • Width: 7.6cm
  • Thickness: 0.9-1.1cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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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).
Collection
Accession number
C.672-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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