Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, coated in a whtie glaze painted in blue, turquoise and black
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a thick white, slightly crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in black.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with slightly out-turned, collared rim sitting on a foot ring
Interior: blue dentilated pattern painted on the rim under which a band of blue calligraphy is interspersed with turquoise and black contoured fillers, all enclosed within two blue concentric lines. On the body, a blue linear geometric pattern, imitating a book cover, contains black or black and turquoise fillers.
Exterior: a blue line is painted on the rim. On the upper body, a band of black Arabic script (cursive) is painted. Glaze runs unevenly over the foot ring. Glaze also present on the underside of the foot ring
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 8.3 cm
Weight: 397 g
Width: 20.9 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1180
CE
-
1219
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue and turquoise (in-glaze), black (overglaze))
glaze
( white, crazed)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, crazed, runs unevenly over the foot ring, also present on the underside of the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 20.9 cm
Base
Diameter 8.1 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a thick white, slightly crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in black
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: band of calligraphy
- Location: Exterior upper body
- Method of creation: Hand painted in black
- 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 purple) /"No." (printed) "42" (hand written in black); "106 " (hand written in pencil and crossed out)
- 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.132-1935
Primary reference Number: 71812
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.42
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
