Fragment of a fritware bowl centre

An image of Islamic pottery. Fragment of a bowl centre. Unknown potter. Probably Syria, Raqqa, or Fustat, Egypt. Shape: irregular fragment on a foot ring. Interior: on the base, enclosed within black concentric lines, an arabesque incorporating whole and split palmette leaves is painted in reserve against a black background. Exterior: undecorated except for the glaze with covers the surface unevenly particularly on the foot ring. The underside of the base has a spot of turquoise glaze. Fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black under a turquoise glaze. Height, whole, 3 cm, width, whole, 11.2 cm, diameter, base, 8.9 cm, weight, whole, 135 g, circa 1100-1299. Ayyubid.

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Islamic pottery. Fragment of a bowl centre. Unknown potter. Probably Syria, Raqqa, or Fustat, Egypt. Shape: irregular fragment on a foot ring. Interior: on the base, enclosed within black concentric lines, an arabesque incorporating whole and split palmette leaves is painted in reserve against a black background. Exterior: undecorated except for the glaze with covers the surface unevenly particularly on the foot ring. The underside of the base has a spot of turquoise glaze. Fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black under a turquoise glaze. Height, whole, 3 cm, width, whole, 11.2 cm, diameter, base, 8.9 cm, weight, whole, 135 g, circa 1100-1299. Ayyubid.

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Accession Number: C.514-1991
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 965 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 153.07kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2000:01:01 02:26:11

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12th Century 13th Century arabesque Ayyubid Dynasty blue bowl Egyptian Fitz_AA fragment frit fritware Fustat glazed Islamic leaves Medieval palmettes pottery stonepaste Syrian thrown Turkish turquoise underglaze

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