Fragment of a Bowl
Not on view
This piece is likely an unfinished object and an important document demonstrating how potters manufactured ceramics in Abbasid period Iraq. Undocumented provenance records for this piece state that it was found in a potter’s kiln in "old" Basra, together with elements of kiln furniture, glass residue, and other ceramics. The bowl’s unglazed surface was decorated with two alternating colors in radiating strokes, but it was not fully glazed and refired. Investigation of the materiality of the colored strokes revealed that previously fired frits (fused glass) were used to paint directly onto the ceramic body.
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