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Fritware underglazed bowl

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An image of Bowl. Islamic pottery. Unknown potter, probably Syria, Iran. Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a narrow foot ring. Interior: four blue lines are painted at regular intervals. Impurity in the glaze has resulted in a hole created during firing. Exterior: glaze runs over the surface to a mid-point on the body. Fritware, painted with blue under a crazed colourless glaze, height, whole, 5.5 cm, diameter, rim, 14 cm, diameter, base, 4.8 cm, circa 1100-circa 1250. Ayyubid. Seljuk. Acquisition Credit: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.

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Bowl. Islamic pottery. Unknown potter, probably Syria, Iran. Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a narrow foot ring. Interior: four blue lines are painted at regular intervals. Impurity in the glaze has resulted in a hole created during firing. Exterior: glaze runs over the surface to a mid-point on the body. Fritware, painted with blue under a crazed colourless glaze, height, whole, 5.5 cm, diameter, rim, 14 cm, diameter, base, 4.8 cm, circa 1100-circa 1250. Ayyubid. Seljuk. Acquisition Credit: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.

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  • Accession Number: C.68-1935
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 67.25kB
  • Exposure time: 1/90
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 27/1
  • Captured: 2014:05:13 11:42:49

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12th Century 13th Century AD Ayyubid Dynasty bowl crazed Fitz_AA foot footed fritware glazed Iranian Islamic pottery Seljuk Seljuq Dynasty stonepaste Syrian Turkish underglaze

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