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Dish: C.108-1935

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Current Location: In storage

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Potter: Unknown

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased

Legal notes

Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.5 cm
Weight: 1412 g
Width: 36.7 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank

Dating

12th Century, Late
Circa 1179 CE - 1198 CE

School or Style

Seljuk
Monumental style

Components of the work

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

Materials used in production

Fritware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown, with a pitted, blue and cream crazed glaze painted with turquoise and blue pigment and lustre.

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: vertical friezes of script are painted in lustre largely over blue pigment

  • Location: Interior surface
  • Method of creation: Painted
  • Type: Inscription

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

  • Text: "LENT BY" (printed in black) /Brangwyn (typed in purple) / "138" (hand written in black); "80 " (hand written in pencil and crossed out)
  • Location: Inside foot
  • Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: inscribed directly onto the surface of the vessel, on the exterior base in black ink

  • Text: 138
  • Location: Inside foot
  • Method of creation: Hand written
  • Type: Inscription

Inscription present: painted in brown directly onto the surface

  • Text: illegible, possibly Arabic
  • Location: Interior foot
  • Method of creation: Painted
  • Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.108-1935
Primary reference Number: 71286
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.138

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 12 May 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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