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Bowl Fragment

10th century, 1902-1905 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Sevruguin, Antoin (photographer)
Place of origin
Samarra (made)
Iran (photographed)

Fragment from the base of a bowl with a low flat foot, red-coloured alluvial clay body, covered with a yellowish slip, incised with a Kufic inscription repeating the word 'Allah' and a vegetal motif in the central reserve, surrounded by a border of copper green dots, the exterior splashed with copper green and manganese purple in a clear glaze.


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Bowl fragment
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, thrown, incised, painted, glazed
Brief description
Fragment of a bowl, earthenware ("sgraffito" ware), incised with the name 'Allah' and splashed in green and purple ; Iran (al-Kura, Samarra), 10th century.
Physical description
Fragment from the base of a bowl with a low flat foot, red-coloured alluvial clay body, covered with a yellowish slip, incised with a Kufic inscription repeating the word 'Allah' and a vegetal motif in the central reserve, surrounded by a border of copper green dots, the exterior splashed with copper green and manganese purple in a clear glaze.
Dimensions
  • Length: 11.0cm (Note: Overall approximate base diameter estimated to be 14.0cm)
  • Width: 17.5cm
  • Thickness: 0.8-1.2cm
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).
  • 'Camera Orientalis' by Ali Behdad, University of Chicago Press. London and Chicago, 2016. Page 92.
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
C.676-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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