Fragment
9th century
| Place of origin |
Fragment from the rim of a vessel, typical yellow-coloured Tigris/ Euphrates alluvial clay, covered in a tin-opacified lead glaze, with three dots of cobalt blue that run down the bowl forming a vegetal motif and other random splashes in copper green. The glaze is flecked with black details.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, thrown, glazed and painted |
| Brief description | Fragment from a vessel, white ware, painted with blue and green splashes; Iraq (probably Basra), 9th century. |
| Physical description | Fragment from the rim of a vessel, typical yellow-coloured Tigris/ Euphrates alluvial clay, covered in a tin-opacified lead glaze, with three dots of cobalt blue that run down the bowl forming a vegetal motif and other random splashes in copper green. The glaze is flecked with black details. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | Transliteration . |
| 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). |
| Object history | Bought Need to check red inventory number. 762 is based on published information in Sarre, Die Keramik von Samarra. FJ entry for 762 reads: "[Fundort] " [= Gekauft] [Beschreibung] … 2 Fragments of pottery / green splashes Vict & Albert Mus." |
| 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), Section VII.B, pl. 46, Nr. 168, not illustrated. |
| Other number | I-N 762 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.710-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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