Bowl Fragment
13/14th century (made)
Fragment from the rim of a bowl, of pinkish-buff coloured alluvial clay, covered in white slip, painted with a large cobalt blue disk, outlined in black, with a black line band at the rim and dashes along the edge, covered with a glaze. The exterior with a green-stained glaze.
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, painted and glazed |
| Brief description | Fragment from a bowl, earthenware, painted decoration blue and black pigment; possibly Iraq, 13th/14th century. |
| Physical description | Fragment from the rim of a bowl, of pinkish-buff coloured alluvial clay, covered in white slip, painted with a large cobalt blue disk, outlined in black, with a black line band at the rim and dashes along the edge, covered with a glaze. The exterior with a green-stained glaze. |
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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.668-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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