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On display at V&A South Kensington

Ceramics, Room 145

Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Iraq (made)

Bowl, eathenware, with narrow everted rim, covered with a tin-opacified glaze and inglaze painted in coblat blue with a central flowerhead within a square cartouches framed by four stylized half palmettes. Restoration

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Category	Ceramics
Object type	Bowl
Materials and techniques	earthenware with painted decoration infilled with coloured glazes Clay Earthenware Glaze Painted Glazing
Brief description	Bowl, whiteware, inglaze painted in cobalt with four half-palmettes; Iraq, 9th century
Physical description	Bowl, eathenware, with narrow everted rim, covered with a tin-opacified glaze and inglaze painted in coblat blue with a central flowerhead within a square cartouches framed by four stylized half palmettes. Restoration
Dimensions	Height: 6.5cm Maximum diameter: 20.8cm
Styles	Islamic Abbasid
Gallery label	BOWL Earthenware with lustre glaze MESOPOTAMAIN, 9th century(Used until 11/2003)
Object history	Purchased for £17 with Circ. 174-1926
Bibliographic references	Lane, Arthur. Early Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1947. 52p., ill. Page 13, plate 8A Liefkes, Reino and Hilary Young (eds.) Masterpieces of World Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V&A Publishing, 2008, pp. 33. Jessica Hallett, 'Pearl Cups Like the Moon: the Abbasid Reception of Chinese Ceramics and the Belitung Shipwreck', in Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen (eds), Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World, London and New York, 2012, pp.349-361, Fig.20.5.
Collection	Middle East Section
Accession number	CIRC.175-1926

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Record created	August 11, 1998
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8800/bowl-unknown/

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