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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown and moulded, coated in white pitted glaze painted with lustre.
Shape: globular body, tapering towards a foot ring base. A collared neck ascending to a lobbed cup shaped mouth.
Exterior: on the rim a lustre band is incised with an inscription above lustre palmettes, while on the neck dotted ovals are reserved in lustre. On the upper body half palmettes on circling stems are reserved on a lustred ground incised with scrolls. At the mid point on the body, two bands of nashkh inscription are painted in lustre or incised through a lustre band. On the lower body a chain stripe pattern is painted in lustre above a band. Glaze covers the lower body unevenly, terminating on the foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a lustre band, on the mouth a kufic inscription is painted in lustre. Glaze terminates on the mouth.
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: 25.1 cm
Weight: 749 g
Width: 16.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Kashan style
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the lower body unevenly, terminating on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, terminates on the mouth)
Rim
Diameter 7.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
Body
Mouth
Accession number: C.42-2019
Primary reference Number: 71058
Previous ID: AL.27-1948
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) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71058 Accessed: 2024-04-25 06:54:32
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|title=Bottle
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-25 06:54:32|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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