Bowl Fragment
10th/11th century
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Fragment of the rim of a small shallow bowl, pinkish-buff earthenware of alluvial clay, covered in white slip, incised with scrolling foliage and line bands around the rim, the rim and cavetto with repeated bands of copper green or manganese purple dots, covered in a clear lead glaze. The exterior has traces of an amber coloured glaze and green drips around the rim edge. The glaze is much degraded.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, slip, incised (sgrafitto) and painted |
| Brief description | Fragment of a bowl, earthenware, incised, and painted with dots in green and purple; Iraq (probably al-Kura, Samarra), 10th/11th century. Sarre's Group XII |
| Physical description | Fragment of the rim of a small shallow bowl, pinkish-buff earthenware of alluvial clay, covered in white slip, incised with scrolling foliage and line bands around the rim, the rim and cavetto with repeated bands of copper green or manganese purple dots, covered in a clear lead glaze. The exterior has traces of an amber coloured glaze and green drips around the rim edge. The glaze is much degraded. |
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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.664-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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