Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in four colours
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with red, grey and turquoise with black outlines.
Shape: carinated hemispherical bowl with a slight collar at the neck, sits on a low foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a dentillated grey pattern. On the neck, grey kufic script is floriated with scrolling turquoise half palmettes on a red ground. On the body, enclosed with a roundel, a radiating panel design comprises a central star whose arms contain a turquoise naskh inscription. Between the arms triangular panels contain either arabesques or an irregular grid and lozenge pattern, both painted in grey, red, turquoise and black.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a turquoise band. On the neck, enclosed between red concentric lines, a naskh inscription is painted in turquoise and red. Glaze covers the surface to the foot ring where it terminates unevenly.
Notes
History note: Unknown before seller
Legal notes
Bought with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 8.7 cm
Weight: 414 g
Width: 21.5 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
( turquoise and red with black outlines)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white)
pigment
( with red, grey and turquoise with black outlines)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 21.5 cm
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with red, grey and turquoise with black outlines
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: painted overglaze in turquoise and outlined in black
- Location: Interior body, exterior rim
- 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), '47' hand written in black ink, ‘115’, hand written in pencil (encircled in the top right hand corner) and ‘107’ (crossed through on the right hand side)
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: hand written in pencil directly onto the object surface
- Text: 4/
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.134-1935
Primary reference Number: 71839
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.47
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
