Fritware bowl with crazed turquoise glaze

An image of Bowl. Islamic pottery. Silhouette ware. Unknown potter, Iran. Shape: irregular carinated bowl with conical lower body and cylindrical neck with an everted rim. Sits on a foot ring. Interior: on the body four black palmettes toped with finials are spaced at regular intervals, with an additional, smaller version at the centre of the base. Glaze pools in the base. Exterior: On the neck a wide band of black is incised with script with fleurs de lys at regular intervals. Glaze runs terminates on the foot ring, where coverage is uneven. Fritware, wheel thrown, partially coated in a black slip, carved under a transparent, crazed turquoise glaze. Height, whole, 12 cm, width, whole, 19.7 cm, diameter, base, 8.2 cm, weight 587 g, circa 1100-circa 1199. Seljuk.

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Bowl. Islamic pottery. Silhouette ware. Unknown potter, Iran. Shape: irregular carinated bowl with conical lower body and cylindrical neck with an everted rim. Sits on a foot ring. Interior: on the body four black palmettes toped with finials are spaced at regular intervals, with an additional, smaller version at the centre of the base. Glaze pools in the base. Exterior: On the neck a wide band of black is incised with script with fleurs de lys at regular intervals. Glaze runs terminates on the foot ring, where coverage is uneven. Fritware, wheel thrown, partially coated in a black slip, carved under a transparent, crazed turquoise glaze. Height, whole, 12 cm, width, whole, 19.7 cm, diameter, base, 8.2 cm, weight 587 g, circa 1100-circa 1199. Seljuk.

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Accession Number: C.78-1935
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3D
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 122.27kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2014:05:16 15:03:46

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12th Century AD bowl crazed Fitz_AA fleur-de-lis fleur-de-lys fleurs fleury foot footed fritware glazed green Iranian Islamic pottery script Seljuk Seljuq Dynasty silhouette ware slip slip-coated slipware stonepaste thrown turquoise wheel thrown

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