Islamic Fritware tankard and cover

An image of Fritware (stonepaste)/ tankard and cover. Tankard: around the rim an alternating horizontal frieze of black dotted diagonal crosses, divided by polychrome vertical lines and mounds with sprouting flowers. On the body vertical friezes of stylised polychrome floral sprays are separated by yellow vertical lines from winged, highly stylised angels’ heads. The handle is painted with a vertical frieze of semi-circles in alternating colours. The underside is glazed, with three spur marks clearly visible resulting from use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln. Cover: two concentric friezes of polychrome stylised floral sprays, the lower incorporating ‘saz’ leaves. Decoration differs from that on the tankard, which may suggest that the cover belonged originally to a different vessel. Glaze covers underside. Fritware, wheel thrown with elements hand made or carved. Finely potted, painted in red, blue, purple, yellow, black and green under a clear, crazed glaze. Height, tankard, 12.3 cm, height, cover, 5.9 cm, width, whole, 14.2 cm, diameter, rim, 10 cm, diameter, rim, 10.5 cm, diameter, base, 10.2 cm, weight, whole, 476 g, circa 1700-1799. Ottoman. Islamic pottery. Anatolia, Kutahiya, Kütahya.

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Fritware (stonepaste)/ tankard and cover. Tankard: around the rim an alternating horizontal frieze of black dotted diagonal crosses, divided by polychrome vertical lines and mounds with sprouting flowers. On the body vertical friezes of stylised polychrome floral sprays are separated by yellow vertical lines from winged, highly stylised angels’ heads. The handle is painted with a vertical frieze of semi-circles in alternating colours. The underside is glazed, with three spur marks clearly visible resulting from use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln. Cover: two concentric friezes of polychrome stylised floral sprays, the lower incorporating ‘saz’ leaves. Decoration differs from that on the tankard, which may suggest that the cover belonged originally to a different vessel. Glaze covers underside. Fritware, wheel thrown with elements hand made or carved. Finely potted, painted in red, blue, purple, yellow, black and green under a clear, crazed glaze. Height, tankard, 12.3 cm, height, cover, 5.9 cm, width, whole, 14.2 cm, diameter, rim, 10 cm, diameter, rim, 10.5 cm, diameter, base, 10.2 cm, weight, whole, 476 g, circa 1700-1799. Ottoman. Islamic pottery. Anatolia, Kutahiya, Kütahya.

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Accession Number: C.17 & A-2009
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 888 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 556.71kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:08:16 15:32:16

Key words

18th Century ceramics cover cream drinking vessel Fitz_AA floral frieze frit fritware glazed handled Islamic knob leaves lidded mugs Ottoman painted polychrome pottery saz leaves stonepaste studio ceramics stylised tankard thrown vessel

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