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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white and painted with lustre.
Shape: inverted pear shaped body, sits on a low, flaring foot ring. Cylindrical neck with a triangular rim.
Exterior: the rim is painted with lustre, while on the upper neck, shoulder and body incised lustre bands divide wider friezes. On the neck medallions containing either crosses or a palmette incised on a lustre ground. On the upper body, a kufic inscription is painted on a background of lustre spirals and sketchy half palmettes. On the lower body palmettes are painted in lustre above a solid lustre band. On the handle a chevron pattern is flanked by lustre panels. Glaze covers the surface to the lower body, terminating unevenly on the foot ring.
Interior: lustre band continues on the rim and neck above a roughly painted lustre kufic inscription. White glaze covers the upper neck with a thinner coverage of clear glaze over the remainder of the surface.
History note: Found at Gurgan
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Height: 24.4 cm
Weight: 852 g
Width: 15.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Kashan
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the surface to the lower body, terminating unevenly on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white glaze covers the upper neck with a thinner coverage of clear glaze over the remainder of the surface)
Base
Diameter 7.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 7.5 cm
Interior Rim/neck
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white and painted with lustre
Inscription present: Arabic nashkh script
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
Accession number: C.72-2019
Primary reference Number: 71038
Previous ID: AL.12-1976
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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