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Potter: Unknown
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.
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 cm
Weight: 1036 g
Width: 18.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century-13th Century, Early
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
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
Moulding : Fritware, moulded under a turquoise glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label printed in black
Inscription present: Oval cream paper label printed in black, with '66' and '50' hand written
Accession number: C.52-2019
Primary reference Number: 71053
Previous ID: AL.2-1976
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) "Jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71053 Accessed: 2024-11-05 03:47:15
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 03:47:15|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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