Advanced Search
One of nine shards of Islamic ceramics
Requires Photography
Ceramic sherd with monochrome olive green luster
One of nine shards of Islamic ceramics
Abbasid period
9th century
Object Place: Samarra, Iraq
Medium/Technique
Clay
Credit Line
Charles Goddard Weld Fund
Accession NumberRES.23.51
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
Provenance1911–1913, excavated by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum (Ernst Herzfeld) at Samarra, Iraq. 1923, purchased for £20 by the MFA from the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum, London. (Accession Date: January 4, 1923)