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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with blue and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white, slightly pitted glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre.
Shape: carinated bowl with plain rim on a flaring foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with lustre above a band of blue. On the body, a pseudo calligraphic band, surrounded by scrolls, is painted in lustre. The base is divided into quadrants by blue, 'V' shapes emanating from a central star, both containing peacocks eyes and scrolls in lustre. Within the quadrants birds in flight are reserved on a lustred ground incised with scrolls.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a lustre band. On the body, vertical dashes are painted above further lustre bands, one of which is scalloped. Glaze runs over the surface of the foot ring unevenly.
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: 5.3 cm
Weight: 88 g
Width: 10.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Kashan style
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, runs over the surface of the foot ring unevenly)
Rim
Diameter 10.1 cm
Base
Diameter 4.2 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white, slightly pitted glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
Accession number: C.94-2019
Primary reference Number: 71050
Previous ID: AL.18-1983
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71050 Accessed: 2024-12-22 20:17:23
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71050
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 20:17:23|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-71050
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/AL_18_1983_281_29.jpg"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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