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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze, painted in blue, turquoise and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown and mould made, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in lustre.
Shape: pear shaped body on a low, flaring foot ring, a collared neck ascends to a bird\rquote s head spout. A strap handle with thumb rest is attached to the neck and body.
Exterior: the bird head spout and neck are painted with lustre, incised with features including eyes, feathers and scalloped lines. On the body two inscriptions, incised through a lustre band and delineated by blue concentric lines, frame a frieze of panels. Those panels are divided by vertical inscriptions painted in lustre and contain arabesques, painted in blue and turquoise and reserved on a lustred ground enclosing split palmettes. On the base a scalloped band and vertical dashes are painted in lustre. Handle is painted with a lustre and has an inscription incised on the exterior. The glaze terminates on the foot ring, where it covers the surface unevenly.
Interior: the rim is painted with a lustre band, glaze runs over the surface as far as is visible.
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: 22.3 cm
Weight: 430 g
Width: 13.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
1220
CE
Kashan style
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the surface unevenly)
Interior Rim
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white, glaze runs over the surface as far as is visible)
Rim
Diameter 4.4 cm
Base
Diameter 7.6 cm
Body
Rim And Neck
Inscription present: Arabic, naskh script
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.59-2019
Primary reference Number: 71051
Old object number: AL.29-1948
Previous ID: AL.19-1983
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) "Ewer" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71051 Accessed: 2024-11-22 01:20:23
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 01:20:23|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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