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Ceramic sherd with tin glaze


Eight shards of Islamic ceramics
Abbasid period
9th century
Object Place: Samarra, Iraq

Medium/Technique Clay
Credit Line Charles Goddard Weld Fund
Accession NumberRES.23.74
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)