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Bowl Fragment

9th century
Place of origin
Iraq (made)

Fragment from the base of a bowl, pinkish-buff earthenware of alluvial clay, covered in tin-opacified white slip, and painted with radiating lines of copper green and purple manganese pigment, and covered in a clear, colourless lead glaze. The exterior is undecorated and unglazed.

Sarre's group XII


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Bowl fragment
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, thrown, slipped, painted and glazed
Brief description
Fragment of the footrim of a bowl, earthenware, with stripes in purple and green; Iraq (probably Samarra), 9th century.
Physical description
Fragment from the base of a bowl, pinkish-buff earthenware of alluvial clay, covered in tin-opacified white slip, and painted with radiating lines of copper green and purple manganese pigment, and covered in a clear, colourless lead glaze. The exterior is undecorated and unglazed.

Sarre's group XII
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.5cm
  • Width: 10.4cm
Approximate overall diameter estimated to be 20 cm. Approximate footrim diameter is estimated to be 14cm.
Style
Abbasid
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 references
  • 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).
  • Northedge, Alastair (1996), ‘Friedrich Sarre’s Die Keramik von Samarra in perspective,’ in K. Bartl and S. Hauser (eds.), Continuity and Change in Northern Mesopotamia from the Hellenistic to the early Islamic period: proceedings of a colloquium held at the Seminar für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Freie Universität Berlin, 6th-9th April, 1994 , Dietrich Vaimar Verlag, Berlin: 229-58.
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
C.663-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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