IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71040 accession number: C.57-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 23 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre. Shape: standing bull with curled horns, mounted on a plinth. A spout at the mouth and on the back, a handle attached to the rear spout and head. Decoration: on the head and horns a muzzle covers the area leaving small white panels for the eyes, which are painted in fine lines. The handle attaches to this muzzle giving the appearance of a restraint. The body and legs are divided into panels by thick lines of lustre that are painted on area of relief moulding to form a harness and saddle cloth. Large circles are drawn on a background of dots and dashes within those panels, except in the semi-ovals beneath the saddle cloth, where a quadruped is reserved on a lustred ground incised with spirals. The glaze covers the plinth unevenly and there is a roughly drawn dotted circle in the centre. object type: fritware coated in white glaze painted with lustre title: figurine 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 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/71040 SUBJECTS ------------------- bull (animal) bull (animal) TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1170 - 1200 creation date earliest: 1170 creation date latest: 1200 culture: 12th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.5 dimension: Weight units: g value: 414 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Early Islamic Wares title: The Gurgan Finds title: Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of an Exhibition of Early Islamic Wares from April 26th to June 7th 1950 The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Islamic sculpture ceramic figurines Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection The Enigmatic Figure: Ceramic Sculpture from Iran and Syria c. 1150-1250 Persian Lustre Ware ---