Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
History note: Found at Gurgan
Legal notes
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Measurements and weight
Height: 12 cm
Weight: 525 g
Width: 19.7 cm
Place(s) associated
Find spot
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Note
Monumental style
School or Style
Seljuk
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
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
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, painted with blue and coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
- Text: 81
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Printed in white
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white paper label
- Text: 9
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.73-2019
Primary reference Number: 71041
Old loan number: AL.81-1948
Previous ID: AL.14-1976
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 24 March 2023
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
