Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted in polychrome and gilded
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted in blue, red-brown, turquoise, and black and gilded.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with collared neck, sits on a slightly flaring foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a blue dentillated pattern. On the neck a blue kufic inscription is surrounded by turquoise leaves and red dots. On the body a mounted horseman wearing a tunic decorated with grey and blue zig zags, a blue hat and carrying a quiver, rides a turquoise stead; features including reins on the horse and belt of the rider are gilded. Below the horse a red-brown dog with blue collar is depicted; around both animals and rider gilded lozenges and red and turquoise dots are painted.
Exterior: on the upper body, contained within two concentric red lines, a black naskhi inscription is painted. Glaze runs over the exterior body, terminating unevenly on the foot ring.
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 435 g
Width: 20.6 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 Neck
composed of
pigment
( black, red)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, red-brown, turquoise, and black)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, runs over the exterior body, terminating unevenly on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 20.6 cm
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted in blue, red-brown, turquoise, and black and gilded
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: blue kufic inscription is surrounded by turquoise leaves and red dots
- Location: Interior neck
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: painted in black between two red lines
- 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), '44' hand written in black ink, ‘118’ (crossed through on the right hand side) and '110' (encircled on the right hand side)
- 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.143-1935
Primary reference Number: 71993
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.44
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
