Author
Unknown
Publication Place
Basra (made) -
Subject
Ceramics Islam
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Height: 7.1cm, Diameter: 20.9cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
C.12-1947
Record ID
C.12-1947
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Glazed ceramics were not widely used in the pre-Islamic Middle East, but in the 8th and 9th centuries they began to assume the important role they have today. High-fired ceramics from China, first brought to Iraq by sea in the 8th century, were one stimulus for this change. In the early 9th century Iraqi potters began to imitate elegant white bowls imported from China. They used the local yellow clay, which they masked with an opaque white glaze. Soon they began to add new forms and decoration of different types in blue, green and metallic lustre. Once Iraqi potters could successfully imitate Chinese whitewares, they began to treat the white surface of their ceramics as a blank canvas. Splashed decoration in copper green and other colours, as seen on this bowl, was inspired by Chinese models.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Earthenware with white slip and stained lead glaze Earthenware Slip Glazing
Fiziksel açıklama
Deep bowl on a slightly spreading foot, the interior of the bowl quartered by bands of pale and dark brown decoration. The remainder of the bowl interior is infilled with radiating green bands, except the centre which is infilled with green dots. Some stripes of green have run over onto bowl exterior.
Üslup
Islamic Abbasid
