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Bowl Fragment

10th/11th century
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Category
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 3.6cm
  • Length: 15.3cm
  • Thickness: 1.0cm
Approximate overall diameter estimated to be 14cm
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 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
Accession number
C.662-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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