Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware pierced and coated with a blue glaze, painted with red, brown and white and gilded.
Fritware, wheel thrown, pierced and coated in a blue glaze painted with red and white and gilded.
Shape: bi-conical bowl with a collar on the exterior of the rim and sitting on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: on the rim a band of vertical lines and diamonds form a pseudo-calligraphic frieze, delimited by a concentric line. On the body, heart shaped cartouche with pendant finials are joined by arches to fleurs de lis, the centre of both of these shapes are pierced, forming a circular shape. On the base emanating from a four part rosette, further arches form oval shapes at their crossing points and enclose further, smaller rosettes. All decoration is gilded with red outlines and is surrounded by white scrolls; on the rim the remanants of a brown background are visible.
Exterior: piercing from the interior is visible, otherwise undecorated except for a blue glaze that covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring and small areas on the lower body.
Legal notes
Purchased from the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 351 g
Width: 20 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 Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring and small areas on the lower body.)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( blue)
pigment
( red, brown, white)
gold leaf
Rim
Diameter 20 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, pierced and coated in a blue glaze painted with red and white and gilded.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge, a black rectangular border printed around the edge
- Text: “Lent by” (printed in black); below this “Brangwyn” (typed in black); below this the number ‘65’ (hand written in black ink), ‘112’ (hand written in pencil and crossed through on the right hand side).
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written, typed
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.137-1935
Primary reference Number: 71884
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD-59
Old number: BP.65
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 31 July 2025
Last processed: Thursday 31 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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