Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted in polychrome
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white with red, blue, turquoise, grey, black and flesh tones.
Shape: bi-conical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a foot ring
Interior: the rim is painted with a dentailated pattern in grey. On the neck a floriated kufic inscription is reserved in red, turquoise and blue and separated by roundels containing a blue arabesque reserved on a red ground. The roundel on the base is enclosed by a further frieze of small medallions, containing palmettes reserved in green or grey, separated by red lozenges. On the base, contained within a scalloped roundel, a horseman wearing a red tunic is mounted on a blue stead and surrounded by scrolling palmettes, all reserved on a turquoise ground.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a turquoise concentric line. On the body, a grey lozenge pattern, dotted with red and turquoise, encloses a kufic inscription floriated with red and separated by turquoise medallions containing red stylised birds. Glaze terminates unevenly on 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: 9.4 cm
Weight: 379 g
Width: 19.8 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red, blue, turquoise, grey, black and flesh tones)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( red, turquoise, grey, black)
glaze
( white, terminates unevenly on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 19.8 cm
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white with red, grey, blue, turquoise, black and flesh tones
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: outlined in black, reserved in red, turquoise and blue, floriated kufic
- Location: Interior neck
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: turquoise, outlined in black
- Location: Exterior body
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
- Text: 103
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed
- Type: Label
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
- Text: 95
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Printed in white
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.65-2019
Primary reference Number: 71093
Previous ID: AL.77-1948
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 17 February 2022
Last processed: Wednesday 25 June 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
