Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in turquoise, blue and lustre
Fritware, mould made, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze with lustre.
Shape: twelve sided carinated bowl, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: the rim is painted blue. On the body panels radiate from the roundel, these are defined by blue or turquoise lines and contain alternately pseudo calligraphic lustre bands above palmettes, or birds reserved in lustre or dotted lines around 'H' shapes. In the roundel a seated figure in front of a low table stacked with fruits, is reserved on a lustred ground and surrounded by dotted palmettes.
Exterior: the rim is painted blue. On the body panels contain further dotted lines around 'H' shapes. Glaze runs over the lower body unevenly, covering the top of the foot ring.
Notes
History note: Found at Gurgan
Legal notes
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Measurements and weight
Height: 9.7 cm
Width: 21.4 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
13th Century, Late
Circa
1260
CE
-
Circa
1299
CE
School or Style
Il-Khanid
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Rim
composed of
pigment
( blue)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, runs over the lower body unevenly, covering the top of the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 21.4 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Fritware, mould made, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white label
- Text: 133
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.98-2019
Primary reference Number: 71070
Previous ID: AL.49-1948
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 6 May 2022
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
