IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71038 accession number: C.72-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 23 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted in lustre title: jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found at Gurgan LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ades family collection creditline: Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71038 TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white and painted with lustre throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1200 - 1220 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1220 culture: 13th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.4 dimension: Weight units: g value: 852 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Arts of the Islamic Book title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection Persian Lustre Ware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_AL_12_1976_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_AL_12_1976_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_AL_12_1976_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_AL_12_1976_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_AL_12_1976_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_AL_12_1976_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_AL_12_1976_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_12_1976_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_AL_12_1976_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels