IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71069
accession number:	C.63-2019

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 17 February 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with slightly everted rim, sits on a foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a band of lustre. On the body, a frieze of jewel like motifs is interspersed at regular intervals with scrolls and dots. In the roundel, two opposing birds with heads facing their tails are outlined with a thick line of lustre and surrounding by scrolling half palmettes.
Exterior: the lustre band continues on rim. On the body an inscription is painted in lustre. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring, a thinner coverage on the underside.
object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Found at Gurgan


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71069


SUBJECTS
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birds
birds



TECHNIQUES
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fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1170 - 1199
creation date earliest:	1170
creation date latest:	1199
culture:	12th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.4

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 213

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 16



CITATIONS
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Persian Lustre Ware
Perpetual Glory Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection
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