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Bowl: C.410-1991

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Current Location: In storage

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Potter: Unknown

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Description

Buff fritware with carved decoration under a blue glaze

Large fritware, wheel thrown, with carved decoration and a crazed and pitted lavender blue monochrome glaze.
Shape: Large fritware bowl, roughly hemispherical, with slightly incurving sides and a slightly everted rim, sitting on a high foot ring base.
Exterior: Below the rim carved scrolling decoration, resembling omega symbols on their side, form a repeating pattern with some irregularity in the carving. The central frieze comprises an Arabic script (kufic) with incised foliage in the areas between the down strokes. Above and below this frieze are raised, carved concentric lines. The lower body is gadrooned with some irregularities in the carving. The same glaze runs in an irregular pattern down the exterior foot ring .
Interior: Undecorated except for a glaze coating in lavender blue, thinner than that on the exterior.

Notes

History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Measurements and weight

Height: 18.5 cm
Weight: 1687 g
Width: 26.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

12th Century
Circa 1100 CE - 1199 CE

School or Style

Seljuk

Components of the work

Base Diameter 12 cm
Rim Diameter 25.9 cm
Exterior

Materials used in production

opaque lavender blue, uneven coverage on foot ring base Glaze
Fritware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Large fritware, wheel thrown, with carved decoration and a lavender blue monochrome glaze
Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: foliated kufic script carved in a frieze on upper body

  • Location: Exterior body
  • Method of creation: Carved
  • Type: Inscription

Inscription present: square paper label with serrated edge down the right hand side

  • Text: No/955
  • Location: Exterior base
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge

  • Text: 505
  • Location: Exterior base
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: rectangular card label with piece of string attached and cello tape on string

  • Text: Sotheby’s, Founded 1744 (printed on surface); 102 (written on surface); 15 OCT 1986 (stamped on surface)
  • Location: Loose in vessel interior
  • Method of creation: Printed, inscribed and stamped
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.410-1991
Primary reference Number: 28926
Packing number: ISCER 586
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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