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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with blue and white glaze painted in lustre
Buff fritware, mould made, with blue and white crazed glazes painted with a yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: hexagonal or star shaped dish with bead rim, lobbed body with carination descending onto a flat base sitting on a foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted in lustre with blue colouring which has run from the external glaze. The lip is painted with scrolling leaves in lustre. The lobes on the body are decorated, alternately, with palmette leaves painted in reserve against a lustred background or jewel like motif surrounded by scrolling foliage painted in lustre. The central decoration is enclosed within a lobed cartouche, painted in reserve against a lustred background. A seated figure is depicted wearing a headdress and a robe decorated with groups of three dots, in his right hand he holds an object, possibly a vessel. Scrolling leaves and vines occupy the background around the figure.
Exterior: a blue glaze covers the exterior and runs unevenly over the foot ring. The rim is painted with a band of lustre and on the upper body Arabic script (cursive) is painted.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 6.4 cm
Weight: 409 g
Width: 20.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, crazed)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, crazed)
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Rim
Diameter 20.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8.9 cm
Exterior Upper Body
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, with blue and white crazed glazes painted with a yellow-brown lustre
Inscription present: on the upper body script is painted in lustre in a free hand style, forming a concentric frieze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom
Inscription present: rectangular paper label underlies the Brangwyn label, it is inscribed in blank ink, possibly in Arabic
Accession number: C.122-1935
Primary reference Number: 71618
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.78
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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