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Potter: Unknown
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.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 8 cm
Weight: 368 g
Width: 19.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1170
CE
-
1220
CE
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
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in turquoise glaze painted in black, white, blue, grey and red and gilded
Inscription present: white floriated kufic inscription painted on a black band
Inscription present: painted in black over the glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: written directly onto the surface of the object
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
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
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72024 Accessed: 2024-12-18 17:34:51
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72024
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 17:34:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-72024
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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