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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in white or blue glaze painted with lustre or brown paint
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white, crazed or blue glaze painted with lustre or brown paint
Shape: slightly convex body ascending via a carination to a slightly inverted rim. Sits on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: a lustre-coloured band is painted on the rim; blue pigment from the exterior runs onto the interior rim surface. On the body, reserved on a lustre-coloured ground, a peacock decorated with dots, lines and scrolls is painted on a background of scrolling palmettes and half palmettes.
Exterior: a thin line of lustre is visible on the rim and accidentally applied dashes or dots of lustre are visible on the body. Blue glaze covers the lower body unevenly, with pitting on the lower section and running onto the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 3.7 cm
Weight: 348 g
Width: 19 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late
19th Century-20th Century, Early#
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Circa
1850
CE
-
Circa
1925
CE
Monumental style
Seljuk
19th Century-20th Century, Early#
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, covers the lower body unevenly, with pitting on the lower section and running onto the foot ring)
oxide colours
( lustre)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre or brown paint)
glaze
( white, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 19 cm
Base
Diameter 7.4 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white, crazed or blue glaze painted with lustre or brown paint
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated lower edge
Accession number: C.118-1935
Primary reference Number: 71468
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.26
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) "Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71468 Accessed: 2024-12-18 19:15:57
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 19:15:57|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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