Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a white glaze and painted in blue, turquoise, purple, red, black and flesh tones and gilded
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and over the glaze in red, black and flesh tones and leaf gilded.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with collared rim and a low foot ring
Interior: rim is painted with a blue dentillated pattern above a black band of pseudo-calligraphy painted on a blue background. On the body, a courtly scene comprised a central enthroned figure surrounded by seated humans, harpies, birds and sphinx, two of which have a wolf’s head on their tale. An arabesque is painted between the two pairs of sphinx and a series of inverted ‘V’ shapes and pointed leaves are painted above each human figure. All this decoration is outlined in black and embellished with typical ‘minai’ colours of blue, turquoise, black, red and purple with gilding particularly evident on the garments of the enthroned figure.
Exterior: a blue band is barely visible on the rim, on the upper body an Arabic inscription (cursive) is painted in black. The glaze runs unevenly over the foot ring
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 8.7 cm
Weight: 360 g
Width: 20.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1180
-
1219
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise and purple (in glaze); red, black and flesh tones (over-glaze))
gold leaf
( gilding used to embellish small areas)
glaze
( white, crazed)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, crazed, runs unevenly over the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 20.4 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white, crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and over the glaze in red, black and flesh tones and leaf gilded.
Inscription present: on the upper body an inscription is painted in black
Inscription present: black band of calligraphy (possibly pseudo-calligraphy) painted on a blue background
Inscription present: pink rectangular label with serrated edge
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.133-1935
Primary reference Number: 138557
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.45
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/138557 Accessed: 2024-11-22 04:35:12
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/138557
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 04:35:12|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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/objects/object-138557
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...