IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71041 accession number: C.73-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 24 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: fritware painted with blue and lustre under or on a white glaze title: bowl 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/71041 PEOPLE ------------------- seated figure TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown, painted with blue and coated in a white glaze painted with lustre throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1179 - 1199 creation date earliest: 1179 creation date latest: 1199 culture: 12th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12 dimension: Weight units: g value: 525 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- Gurgan Faiences The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Persian Lustre Ware Ceramics from Islamic Lands ---