Publication Place
Basra (made) Iraq -
Subject
Ceramics
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 6.0cm, Width: 4.8cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
C.677-1922
Record ID
C.677-1922
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Fragment from a bowl, earthenware, white glazed and painted with bichrome lustre; Iraq (probably Basra), 9th century. Found in Samarra.
Sample Text
Transliteration .
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Earthenware, thrown, glazed, lustred
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment from the body of a bowl, fine yellow-coloured alluvial clay body, covered with a tin-opacified white glaze which is slightly green-tinged on the exterior, surface painted in bichrome lustre, with a different colour on each side, the interior with cursively inscribed roundels filled in with peacock eye motifsr and the exterior with brown lustre roundels.