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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white painted with lustre.
Shape: carinated bowl on a foot ring with a hammer head rim.
Interior: On the rim and upper body two inscriptions are incised through a lustre band and another is painted in lustre. On the body, reserved on a lustred ground incised with scrolls, two confronted figures frame a flying bird and are surrounded by split leaf palmettes, they and are seated on a mound above a fish.
Exterior: on the body a floriated kufic inscription is reserved in lustre and is framed above and below by concentric bands of lustre. Glaze covers the lower body unevenly, terminating on the foot ring.
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: 9.3 cm
Weight: 524 g
Width: 20.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Kashan style
Exterior Body
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)
Rim
Diameter 20.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white painted with lustre
Inscription present: incised through lustre or painted in lustre
Inscription present: reserved in lustre
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
Inscription present: hand written directly onto object surface
Accession number: C.44-2019
Primary reference Number: 71065
Previous ID: AL.40-1948
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71065 Accessed: 2024-12-18 12:44:14
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71065
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 12:44:14|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-71065
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/AL_40_1948_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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