IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71057 accession number: C.95-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre. Shape: bulbous body tapering to a foot ring base and carinated at the shoulder leading to a flaring tubular neck. Strap handle with thumb rest is attached to the neck and shoulder. Exterior: three bands of lustre on the rim, shoulder and lower body divide the surface into three friezes. On the neck a lustre cable pattern is painted above a frieze of birds and blue half palmettes reserved on a lustre ground incised with scrolls. On the body, palmettes and half pamettes, painted in blue and reserved on a lustre ground incised with scrolls, is divided by vertical panels of epigraphy painted in lustre. On the lower body, a chain stripe pattern is painted in lustre. The handle is painted with a lustre cable pattern, framed by solid lustre panels. Glaze runs over the foot ring unevenly. Interior: lustre paint runs onto the rim and glaze covers the upper neck. object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre 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/71057 TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre throwing 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: 21 dimension: Weight units: g value: 475 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD. An Exhibition arranged by the Islamic Art Circle and held at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1 October to 30 November The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Persian Lustre Ware Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. 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