Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Fritware painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze
Fritware bowl, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: carinated bowl with a slightly out-turned rim, sits on a narrow, slightly flaring foot ring base
Interior: a blue line is painted on the rim. On the body a complex arabesque pattern, incorporating palmettes and split leaves, radiates from a star shaped rosette on the base.
Exterior: on the rim and neck a blue band is outlined in black and painted in black with an inscription. On the body black T-shaped arabesques alternate with blue and black palmettes above a black band. Glaze covers the foot ring unevenly, including the underside with the exception of the rim of the foot ring.
Notes
History note: Purportedly from the Gurgan area; the father of Major Raymond Ades; Major Raymond Ades; the Ades family, by whom lent in 1983.
Legal notes
Given by the Ades family to the commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 10.8 cm
Weight: 405 g
Width: 20.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1998-11-23)
by
Ades Family
Dating
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
painting underglaze
( black, blue)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( transparent, white)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( transparent, white, covers the foot ring unevenly)
Rim
Diameter 20.5 cm
Base
Diameter 7.4 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label
- Text: 26
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in white
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
- Text: 95
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: oval paper label
- Text: ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCY/1950./EXHIB’N’/88’
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed and hand written in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white rectangle with former loan number
- Text: AL9/1983
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.52-1998
Primary reference Number: 28799
Old object number: AL.9-1983
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 13 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
