Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a blue glaze and painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a blue glaze and painted with lustre
Shape: globular body on a low foot ring, a collared cylindrical neck rises onto a cup-shaped mouth (reconstructed).
Exterior: dominating the body and enclosed above and below by concentric bands of lustre, a wide frieze of lamassu comprising winged lion body, decorated with hollow circles and a human head, enhanced by a halo. These figures are surrounded by scrolling half palmettes and reserved in lustre. On the lower body, a loosely painted lustre inscription forms a concentric band. On the upper body, just below the join of the neck, a narrow band of dotted, scrolling circles is painted in lustre. On the neck, and repeated on the reconstructed mouth, bands of lustre are painted at regular intervals, framing a scrolling vegetal frieze. Glaze terminates on the lower body, where is forms a slight ridge.
Interior: the body is undecorated and the neck has a turquoise glaze
Legal notes
Purchased from the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 10 cm
Height: 19.5 cm
Weight: 1627 g
Width: 22 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, terminating on the lower body, where it forms a slight ridge.)
oxide colours
( brown)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Base
Diameter 11 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a blue glaze and painted with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: loosely painted lustre cursive pseudo-script imitating Persian
- Location: Lower body
- Method of creation: Painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: hand written in black pencil
- Text: ‘160’
- Location: Underside of the foot ring
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: hand written in pencil and encircled
- Text: ‘91’
- Location: Underside of the foot ring
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.155-1935
Primary reference Number: 72205
Old number: BP.91?
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
