Fritware Sultanabad ware bowl with a deer

An image of Bowl. Islamic pottery, Sultanabad ware. Unknown potter, Iran. Shape: deep, carinated bowl with ‘T’ shaped rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring. Interior: on the rim, a band of blue dots is framed by blue or black concentric lines. On the body lobbed arches contain a central tear drop cartouche, both these elements and the spandrels are filled with blue or purple curled leaves. Rectangular panels containing blue and black dots and dashes separate these arches. In the roundel a deer is reserved in blue on a background of further coloured leaves. Splashes of turquoise paint in the rim and body. Exterior: the rim is painted with dark blue above a band of curled leaves on the neck. On the body dots and vertical lines are enclosed on the lower body by concentric bands. Glaze covers the surface to the foot ring, with a thin covering on the underside. Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze, height, whole, 13.6 cm, diameter, rim, 27 cm, diameter, base, 10.2 cm, circa 1260-circa 1350. Il-Khanid.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Bowl. Islamic pottery, Sultanabad ware. Unknown potter, Iran. Shape: deep, carinated bowl with ‘T’ shaped rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring. Interior: on the rim, a band of blue dots is framed by blue or black concentric lines. On the body lobbed arches contain a central tear drop cartouche, both these elements and the spandrels are filled with blue or purple curled leaves. Rectangular panels containing blue and black dots and dashes separate these arches. In the roundel a deer is reserved in blue on a background of further coloured leaves. Splashes of turquoise paint in the rim and body. Exterior: the rim is painted with dark blue above a band of curled leaves on the neck. On the body dots and vertical lines are enclosed on the lower body by concentric bands. Glaze covers the surface to the foot ring, with a thin covering on the underside. Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze, height, whole, 13.6 cm, diameter, rim, 27 cm, diameter, base, 10.2 cm, circa 1260-circa 1350. Il-Khanid.

Image data

Accession Number: C.34-1931
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3D
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 166.87kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2014:05:16 14:41:24

Key words

13th Century 14th Century animal animals blue bowl carinated cartouche deer Fitz_AA foot footed fritware glazed Il-khanate Il-Khanid Ilkhanate Iranian Islamic leaf leaves lobed lobes pottery roundel spandrels stonepaste sultanabad ware thrown wheel thrown

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Fritware Sultanabad ware bowl with a deer"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-214176 Accessed: 2025-12-09 15:17:18

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-214176
            |title=Fritware Sultanabad ware bowl with a deer
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-09 15:17:18|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-214175

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_C_34_1931_1_201405_jas244_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Bowl"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Fritware Sultanabad ware bowl with a deer</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>