Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted with blue and lustre under or on a white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted with blue and lustre under or on a white glaze.
Shape: carinated bowl with slightly out-turned rim, sits on a flaring foot ring
Exterior: the rim is painted with a lustre band. On the body roundels outlined in blue contain seated figures wearing doted robes reserved in lustre or lustre half-palmettes on scrolling vines surrounding a triangular container. The spandrels above and below these roundels contain triangles filled with lustre dots and scrolls. Decoration terminates in blue and lustre bands with glaze covering the surface evenly to the foot ring.
Interior: lustre band continues on the rim. On the body roughly drawn palmettes radiate from a central cross.
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: 12 cm
Weight: 525 g
Width: 19.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Monumental style
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the surface evenly to the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 19.7 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted with blue and coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
Inscription present: white paper label
Accession number: C.73-2019
Primary reference Number: 71041
Old loan number: AL.81-1948
Previous ID: AL.14-1976
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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