IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71049 accession number: C.60-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, painted in blue and black, both have which have run, under a transparent turquoise glaze. Shape: fluted cylindrical body with a carination at the shoulder leading to a spouted neck; tapers in the lower body toward a foot ring base. A strap handle with thumb rest is attached to the neck and shoulder. Exterior: on the neck a two black palmettes flank the spout, which is decorated with a black cable pattern and black lines. Black scrolls are painted in the shoulder, while on the body the flutes are painted alternately with a black cable pattern and black fleurs de lys. Blue lines are painted either side of the flutes, on the shoulder and rim. The handle is painted with black lines and a black cable pattern. Impurities in the glaze leave small areas uncovered, particularly on the neck; otherwise the glaze covers to the exterior foot ring where it terminates unevenly. Interior: blue pigment from the rim has run into the interior, otherwise undecorated except for turquoise glaze. object type: fritware, painted in blue and black under a turquoise glaze title: ewer 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/71049 TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, painted in blue and black, both have which have run, under a transparent turquoise glaze moulding 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: 35 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1139 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exposition d'Art Musulman title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- Exposition d'Art Musulman Gurgan Faiences The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Pottery and Metal Shapes in Persia in the 12th and 13th Centuries Bronze Shapes in Iranian Ceramics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution ---