Islamic Fritware tankard and cover

An image of Fritware (stonepaste)/ tankard and cover. Tankard: around the rim panels, divided by yellow and purple vertical lines, containing alternately black diagonal crosses interspersed with dots, or mounds with sprouting flowers. On the body polychrome vertical friezes of stylised floral sprays separated by yellow vertical lines from winged stylised angels’ heads. On the handle, a vertical line 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. Vessel displays signs of defection in manufacture namely a hole in the handle and a dent in the lower body. 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 except for the lip. Fritware, painted in polychrome under a clear glaze, 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, 12.2 cm, height, cover, 6.1 cm, width, whole, 14.2 cm, diameter, rim, 10.1 cm, diameter, rim, 10.2 cm, diameter, base, 10.4 cm, weight, whole, 425 g, circa 1700-1799. Ottoman. Islamic pottery. Anatolia, Kutahiya, Kütahya.

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Fritware (stonepaste)/ tankard and cover. Tankard: around the rim panels, divided by yellow and purple vertical lines, containing alternately black diagonal crosses interspersed with dots, or mounds with sprouting flowers. On the body polychrome vertical friezes of stylised floral sprays separated by yellow vertical lines from winged stylised angels’ heads. On the handle, a vertical line 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. Vessel displays signs of defection in manufacture namely a hole in the handle and a dent in the lower body. 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 except for the lip. Fritware, painted in polychrome under a clear glaze, 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, 12.2 cm, height, cover, 6.1 cm, width, whole, 14.2 cm, diameter, rim, 10.1 cm, diameter, rim, 10.2 cm, diameter, base, 10.4 cm, weight, whole, 425 g, circa 1700-1799. Ottoman. Islamic pottery. Anatolia, Kutahiya, Kütahya.

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Accession Number: C.18 & 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: 851 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 517.68kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:08:16 15:28:15

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

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