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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a black slip and carved under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in carved black slip on the exterior and covered on almost the entire surface with a turquoise glaze
Shape: inverted pear shaped body with a short, cylindrical neck, sitting on a low foot ring. A rolled strap handle is applied to the neck and body.
Exterior: all decoration is carved through black slip. On the neck a frieze of vertical lines is enclosed above and below by concentric lines. On the body long, narrow black rectangles, with a central carved line terminating in a circle, radiate from the base to the neck. The handle is coated unevenly with black slip. Glaze covers the whole surface, except for the rim of the foot ring, it covers the foot ring unevenly.
Interior: coated with a turquoise glaze, otherwise undecorated.
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: 12.8 cm
Weight: 446 g
Width: 15.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, covering the foot ring unevenly)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Base
Diameter 6.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 8.6 cm
Handle
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in carved black slip on the exterior and covered on almost the entire surface with a turquoise glaze
Accession number: C.85-2019
Primary reference Number: 71098
Previous ID: AL.82-1948
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) "Jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71098 Accessed: 2024-12-22 21:36:24
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