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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in lustre
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown and mould made, coated in white glaze painted with lustre.
Shape: globular body on a low foot ring, ascending to a cylindrical flange neck and everted rim.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a lustre band. On the neck, lustre dot and dash patterns are painted in concentric bands and on the upper body a frieze of racing hares is reserved in lustre above a lustre inscription. On the body, a central frieze of opposing birds in medallions is painted in lustre and alternate with arabesques are reserved in lustre. On the lower body sketchy arabesques are reserved in lustre. Glaze covers the surface to the lower body and foot ring where it terminates unevenly.
Interior: lustre band continues on the rim, glaze terminates just below the rim.
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: 21 cm
Weight: 466 g
Width: 13.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
Miniature style
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the surface to the lower body and foot ring where it terminates unevenly)
Interior Rim
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 3.4 cm
Base
Diameter 8.1 cm
Body
Neck And Rim
Inscription present: hand painted in lustre
Inscription present: black rectangular label
Inscription present: white rectangular label
Accession number: C.79-2019
Primary reference Number: 71060
Previous ID: AL.31-1948
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/71060 Accessed: 2024-11-22 05:17:22
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|title=Bottle
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 05:17:22|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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