Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted under or over the glaze with blue and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted under or over the glaze with blue and lustre.
Shape: hemispherical bowl, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: rim is painted with a lustre band. On the body a frieze of horizontal bands of blue and lustre, topped with vertical dashes, alternate with dotted lustre stars. On the base a bird is reserved in lustre, a lustre scroll is painted on the right hand side.
Exterior: lustre band continues on the rim, on the upper body an inscription is painted in lustre. Glaze covers the lower body unevenly, running onto the foot ring in places.
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 4.8 cm
Weight: 79 g
Width: 10.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Note
Monumental style
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, covers the lower body unevenly, running onto the foot ring in places)
Rim
Diameter 10.2 cm
Base
Diameter 4 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted under or over the glaze with blue and lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: painted on the glaze
- Text: Arabic script
- Location: Exterior upper body
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
- Text: 'Lent by' (printed in black), 'Brangwyn' (typed in black), '126' (hand written in black), ‘25’ (hand written in pencil, crossed through on the right hand side), ‘33’ (hand written in pencil, encircled on left hand side)
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.116-1935
Primary reference Number: 71438
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.126
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
