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Bowl Fragment

9th century
Place of origin

Fragment of an everted rim from a bowl, earthenware of calcareous yellow clay with organic inclusions, with a tin-opacified lead glaze, in-painted in cobalt oxide with a stylized palmette motif with seven ribs. The glaze badly degraded and flaking on exterior.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, tin-glazed, in-painted, thrown
Brief description
Fragment from the rim of a bowl, opaque white ware with blue leaf; Iraq (probably Baghdad), 9th century
Physical description
Fragment of an everted rim from a bowl, earthenware of calcareous yellow clay with organic inclusions, with a tin-opacified lead glaze, in-painted in cobalt oxide with a stylized palmette motif with seven ribs. The glaze badly degraded and flaking on exterior.
Dimensions
  • Length: 8.5cm
  • Width: 8.9cm
  • Thickness: 0.5cm
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 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).
Other number
I-N 408 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object
Collection
Accession number
C.633-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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