Fritware dish with animals and birds

An image of Dish. Islamic pottery. Lustreware. Shape: irregular conical dish with wide, everted rim and a low foot ring. Interior: blue glaze from the exterior runs onto the interior rim edge, Arabic script is painted in lustre on the rim. On the body, reserved on a lustred ground, a series of different birds, a griffin and a fox around a central dotted cheetah are surrounded by scrolling vegetation and split palmettes. Exterior: blue glaze runs unevenly over the exterior terminating on the lower body or foot ring. Pinkish fritware, probably wheel thrown coated in a white glaze painted in brown lustre on the interior and glazed in blue on the reverse. Height, whole, 6.7 cm, width, whole, 36 cm, diameter, rim, 36 cm, diameter, base, 18.5 cm, weight, whole, 1564 g, circa 1179- circa 1198. Seljuk Period. Monumental Style.

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Dish. Islamic pottery. Lustreware. Shape: irregular conical dish with wide, everted rim and a low foot ring. Interior: blue glaze from the exterior runs onto the interior rim edge, Arabic script is painted in lustre on the rim. On the body, reserved on a lustred ground, a series of different birds, a griffin and a fox around a central dotted cheetah are surrounded by scrolling vegetation and split palmettes. Exterior: blue glaze runs unevenly over the exterior terminating on the lower body or foot ring. Pinkish fritware, probably wheel thrown coated in a white glaze painted in brown lustre on the interior and glazed in blue on the reverse. Height, whole, 6.7 cm, width, whole, 36 cm, diameter, rim, 36 cm, diameter, base, 18.5 cm, weight, whole, 1564 g, circa 1179- circa 1198. Seljuk Period. Monumental Style.

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Accession Number: OC.157-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 955 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 463.22kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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