Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue, turquoise, brown, black, red and gilded
Fritware, probably wheel thrown, with a white opaque crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in brown, black, red and leaf gilded.
Shape: round cut sherd entire foot ring
Interior: partial picture of two confronted mounted horses either side of a tree with an animal clinging to the trunk. Only the heads of the horses, part of the body of the rider and the lower branches of the tree are visible. The figures, animals and tree trunk are all outlined in black with black features. One horse is painted black and the other blue, while the animal at the tree trunk is brown. The tree trunk is outlined in black and coloured turquoise while the branches are dotted with blue, black and red dots.
Exterior: undecorated except for a white glaze even on underside of foot ring, thinner than on interior of fragment.
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 2.3 cm
Weight: 76 g
Width: 8.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1180
-
1219
School or Style
Seljuk
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
gold leaf
( gilding on selected areas)
pigment
( turquoise, blue (in-glaze) red, black, brown (over-glaze))
glaze
( white, slightly crazed)
Exterior
composed of
glazing (coating)
( white, slightly crazed, even on underside of foot ring, thinner than on interior of fragment)
Base
Diameter 7.3 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, probably wheel thrown, with a white opaque crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in brown, black, red and leaf gilded
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
- Text: "LENT BY" (printed in black) /Brangwyn (typed in purple) /"No." (printed) "107" (hand written in black); "109, 127 " (hand written in pencil and crossed out)
- Location: Underside base (inside foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: Hand written in black ink directly onto vessel surface, partially obscured by labels
- Text: No./09
- Location: Underside base (inside foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: hand written in pencil directly onto vessel surface, partially obscured by labels
- Text: 101
- Location: Underside base (inside foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.147-1935
Primary reference Number: 72055
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.107
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
