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Potter: Unknown
Description: fritware painted in black and blue under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown and hand made, painted in black and blue under a turquoise glaze
Shape: pear-shaped body leading to a cylindrical neck, narrowing onto a bird-shaped mouth. A strap handle is connected to the body and neck; sits on a low foot ring
Exterior: all decoration is painted in black, unless otherwise stated. On the body vertical bands are inscribed and flanked by diffuse lines of blue; these bands terminate in another inscribed horizontal example on the neck but also run onto the handle. Panels between the vertical bands, contain feathery scrolling vegetation, flanked by birds with long tails. Similar vegetation is painted on the lower neck, divided by a solid band from a frieze of diamond shapes, formed by four grouped dots on the upper neck. On the neck bird features are painted and highlighted with blue. Glaze terminates unevenly on the foot ring.
Interior: undecorated except for pigment on the rim running onto the interior and glaze that terminates on the neck.
Purchased from the Glaisher Fund
Height: 26.5 cm
Weight: 618 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1230
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black and blue)
glaze
( turquoise, terminating unevenly on the foot ring.)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, on neck only)
Rim
Diameter 4.6 cm
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
Handle
Mouth
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown and hand made, painted in black and blue under a turquoise glaze
Inscription present: hand written in pencil
Inscription present: hand written in blue
Inscription present: horizontal and vertical black bands are inscribed with naskhi script
Accession number: C.156-1935
Primary reference Number: 72227
Old number: BP.38?
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) "Ewer" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72227 Accessed: 2024-12-18 13:05:46
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 13:05:46|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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