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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted in red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted in red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black.
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 grey. On the body a frieze of tear-drop medallions containing split palmettes reserved in turquoise alternate with arabesques reserved in grey and blue. 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. Within the roundel, mounted on a blue horse, a rider wears a red and green robe and headdress; all encircled by a frond with red blue and turquoise leaves.
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.
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: 9.9 cm
Weight: 397 g
Width: 20.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, Late-13th Century
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( grey, red, turquoise, black)
glaze
( white, terminates unevenly on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 20.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted in red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black
Inscription present: floriated kufic inscription outlined in black and reserved in red, turquoise and grey
Inscription present: painted in turquoise and outlined in black, floriated with red
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
Inscription present: oval paper label
Accession number: C.84-2019
Primary reference Number: 71094
Previous ID: AL.78-1948
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/71094 Accessed: 2024-11-22 01:34:36
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{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71094
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 01:34:36|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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