Pottery: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre
Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted in blue under the glaze and lustre over the glaze.
Shape: bi-conical bowl with a plain rim, standing on a foot ring
Interior: around the rim a kufic inscription is painted in blue on a reserved lustred background containing split palmettes and incised scrolls. Medallions outlined in blue and containing a lustre palmette separate the inscription. On the body, a cursive inscription is painted in lustre and separated by medallions containing roughly drawn lustre birds and scrolls. A tripartite roundel encircled by blue and lustre crosses, depicts a tripartite cosmology incorporating fish below two deer, all reserved against a lustred background with palmettes and incised scrolls. On the upper section of the roundel spirals and dotted circles are painted in lustre.
Exterior: below the rim a cursive inscription is reserved against a lustre background and contained within lustre and blue bands. On the lower body a lustre chain link pattern is painted above two concentric lustre bands. The glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring.
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Height: 9.1 cm
Weight: 342 g
Width: 19.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
1220
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 19.9 cm
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Throwing : Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted in blue under the glaze and lustre over the glaze
Inscription present: cursive Arabic script
Inscription present: cursive Arabic script
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label, torn on the right hand corner
Inscription present: white rectangular label
Accession number: C.83-2019
Primary reference Number: 71089
Previous ID: AL.72-1948
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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