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Fritware with cream and blue glazes painted with turquoise, blue and lustre
Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown, with a pitted, blue and cream crazed glaze painted under the glaze with turquoise and blue pigment and over the glaze in lustre.
Shape: hemispherical dish with a flange rim and low foot ring.
Interior: on the rim, half crescents are painted in lustre, with irregular blue stains from the exterior glaze. A roughly painted painted blue cross with turquoise diagonal stripes in the four quarters covers the interior. Broadly coinciding with the blue cross, vertical friezes of Arabic script (kufic) are painted in lustre. Each quarter is divided into three triangular panels, with the central panel, roughly coinciding with the turquoise under glaze paint, containing an articulated palmette on a scrolling vine, painted in reserve against a lustred background. The flanking panels each contain scrolling vegetation painted in lustre.
Exterior: a blue glaze runs unevenly over the body to a point just above the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 7.5 cm
Weight: 1412 g
Width: 36.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, crazed and pitted)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise)
glaze
( cream, crazed)
oxide colours
( lustre)
Base
Diameter 16 cm
Rim
Diameter 36.7 cm
Throwing : Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown, with a pitted, blue and cream crazed glaze painted with turquoise and blue pigment and lustre.
Inscription present: vertical friezes of script are painted in lustre largely over blue pigment
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around upper and left hand edge adhered to exterior base, partially obscured by a Fitzwilliam Museum accession label
Inscription present: inscribed directly onto the surface of the vessel, on the exterior base in black ink
Inscription present: painted in brown directly onto the surface
Accession number: C.108-1935
Primary reference Number: 71286
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.138
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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