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Title	Bowl
Publication Date:	900
Publication Place	Basra (city) (made) -
Subject	Ceramics Earthenware
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	C.99-1929
Record ID	C.99-1929
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	900
Notes	Iraqi potters began to decorate their white earthenwares with lustre, adapting a technique used in glassmaking. The pottery was glazed and fired, and then painted with silver or copper oxide pigments. After refiring and burnishing, the pattern shone like gold. Making lustre requires great skill, and production shifted around the Middle East as potters moved, taking their expertise with them. After 1050, they used the techniques on fritwares as well as earthenwares.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration Earthenware Tin Glaze Lustre-Painted
Fiziksel açıklama	Bowl, buff-coloured earthenware, covered in a tin-opacified white glaze, painted in silver-rich yellow lustre with three large roundels in reserves with repeat inscriptions in contour panels on dot-filled circle ground and three smaller circles with stippled grounds in reserves against a solid ground. The exterior with concentric circles and dots.

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Bowl

Publication Date 900

Publication Place Basra (city) (made) -

Subject Ceramics Earthenware

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID C.99-1929

Record ID C.99-1929

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 900

Notes Iraqi potters began to decorate their white earthenwares with lustre, adapting a technique used in glassmaking. The pottery was glazed and fired, and then painted with silver or copper oxide pigments. After refiring and burnishing, the pattern shone like gold. Making lustre requires great skill, and production shifted around the Middle East as potters moved, taking their expertise with them. After 1050, they used the techniques on fritwares as well as earthenwares.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration Earthenware Tin Glaze Lustre-Painted

Fiziksel açıklama Bowl, buff-coloured earthenware, covered in a tin-opacified white glaze, painted in silver-rich yellow lustre with three large roundels in reserves with repeat inscriptions in contour panels on dot-filled circle ground and three smaller circles with stippled grounds in reserves against a solid ground. The exterior with concentric circles and dots.