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Mosaic Fragment

836-900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (makers)
Place of origin
Mediterranean (made)

Nine tesserae moulded in the shape of cubes, natron-based (sodium carbonate or soda ash) glass, tinted manganese black, cobalt blue and yellow, probably from lead antimonate.


Object details

Categories
Architecture
Paintings
Object type
Mosaic fragment
Materials and techniques
Glass, moulded
Brief description
Nine cube-shaped glass tesserae for wall-mosaic work; Eastern Mediterranean Coast, 9th century. Found in Samarra.
Physical description
Nine tesserae moulded in the shape of cubes, natron-based (sodium carbonate or soda ash) glass, tinted manganese black, cobalt blue and yellow, probably from lead antimonate.
Dimensions
  • Length: 0.7-0.9cm
  • Width: 0.7-0.9cm
  • Depth: 0.7-0.9cm
Style
Abbasid
Marks and inscriptions
  • Transliteration
Credit line
Given by H.M. Government

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
  • Nadine Schibille, Jens Kröger and Mariam Rosser-Owen, 'Ninth-Century Glasses from Samarra (Iraq) and Near Eastern Glass Production', poster presented at the International Symposium of Archaeometry, Leuven, May 2012
  • Nadine Schibille, 'V&A list' PDF, dated 28 June 2010.
  • Nadine Schibillle, Final Report for British Academy, Small Research Grants - SG round 1, 2009
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
A.58-1922

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O449026/mosaic-fragment-unknown/
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