Bowl Fragment
10th/11th century
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Fragment of the footring of a bowl, pinkish-buff earthenware of alluvial clay, covered in white slip and decorated with purple manganese and copper green around incised radiating panels. This technique is popularly known as the "sgraffiato" technique. The foot and exterior similarly decorated. The glaze much degraded.
This is Friedrich Sarre's group XII.
This is Friedrich Sarre's group XII.
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Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, incised, painted and glazed |
Brief description | Fragment from a bowl, earthenware, with incised decoration and painted in green and purple; Iraq (probably al-Kura, Samarra), 10th/11th century. |
Physical description | Fragment of the footring of a bowl, pinkish-buff earthenware of alluvial clay, covered in white slip and decorated with purple manganese and copper green around incised radiating panels. This technique is popularly known as the "sgraffiato" technique. The foot and exterior similarly decorated. The glaze much degraded. This is Friedrich Sarre's group XII. |
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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.662-1922 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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