Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with three colours
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white crazed glaze painted in turquoise, grey red and black.
Shape: carinated bowl with a collared neck, sits on a slightly flared foot ring
Interior: the rim is painted with a grey dentillated pattern. On the neck, contained by red concentric lines, a lozenge pattern is painted in grey enclosing red or turquoise dots. On the base, enclosed within a roundel, a central rosette and radiating arabesques are painted in turquoise, black, red and grey.
Exterior: on the neck a naskh inscription is painted in black. Glaze runs over the surface, terminating on the foot ring unevenly.
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 9.3 cm
Weight: 417 g
Width: 21.4 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( turquoise, grey red and black)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, runs over the surface, terminating on the foot ring unevenly)
Rim
Diameter 21.4 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Fritware
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white crazed glaze painted in turquoise, grey red and black
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: hand painted in black
- Location: Exterior neck
- 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); 'Brangwyn' (typed), '76' hand written in black ink, ‘105’, hand written in pencil (encircled in the top edge)
- 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.131-1935
Primary reference Number: 71774
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BR.76
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
