Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware covered with a turquoise glaze
Fritware, moulded under a turquoise glaze
Shape: globular body ascending via a carination onto a cylindrical neck; sits on a foot ring. A strap handle with small thumb rest is attached to the neck and upper body.
Exterior: decoration is moulded, on the neck in the form of a lozenge and star shape pattern and on the body as angular trefoils of alternating orientation. Glaze runs over the surface, contains rare splashes of blue and terminates on the foot ring.
Interior: undecorated, except for the glaze which covers the upper neck thickly and the remainder of the interior more thinly.
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: 22 cm
Weight: 1036 g
Width: 18.1 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
12th Century-13th Century, Early
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( turquoise containing rare splashes of blue, terminates on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, covering the upper neck thickly and the remainder of the interior more thinly.)
Base
Diameter 10.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 11.7 cm
Handle
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Fritware, moulded under a turquoise glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label printed in black
- Text: ‘52’.
- Location: Underside of the foot ring
- Method of creation: Printed
- Type: Label
Inscription present: Oval cream paper label printed in black, with '66' and '50' hand written
- Text: ‘ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOC. / 19… / EXHIBITN’; ‘66’ (in the centre) and ‘50’ (after the printed ‘19’).
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.52-2019
Primary reference Number: 71053
Previous ID: AL.2-1976
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 29 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
