Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a turquoise glaze painted in polychrome and gilded
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in turquoise glaze painted in black, white, blue, grey and red and gilded.
Shape: shallow carinated bowl with collared neck, sits on a high, flaring foot ring.
Interior: blue dentillated pattern on the rim, while on the neck a black band is painted with a white floriated kufic inscription. On the base, white arabesques radiate from a white central rosette, both filled with red or blue and with small areas of gilding.
Exterior: black naskhi inscription painted on the neck. Glaze runs over the surface, terminating evenly on the foot ring.
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 8 cm
Weight: 368 g
Width: 19.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1170
CE
-
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, white, blue, grey and red)
glaze
( turquoise)
Exterior Neck
composed of
pigment
( black)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, terminating evenly on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 19.7 cm
Base
Diameter 7.5 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in turquoise glaze painted in black, white, blue, grey and red and gilded
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: white floriated kufic inscription painted on a black band
- Location: Interior neck
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: painted in black over the glaze
- 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), '32' hand written in black ink, ‘113’, hand written in pencil (encircled and crossed through on the left hand side) and ‘122’ (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: written directly onto the surface of the object
- Text: 32
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
- Text: 11
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.145-1935
Primary reference Number: 72024
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.32
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
