Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, pierced and incised under a brown glaze
Fritware, wheel-thrown, pierced and incised under a brown glaze
Shape: conical bowl with slightly concave sides and plain rim, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: on the central body concentric lines contain rectangular panels containing stemmed leaves with pierced decoration, all incised through the ceramic body.
Exterior: pierced decoration from the interior visible on the body. Glaze runs over the surface and terminating on the lower body.
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 8.2 cm
Weight: 324 g
Width: 18.9 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( brown glaze running over the surface and terminating on the lower body.)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( brown)
Rim
Diameter 18.9 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Interior Body
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel-thrown, pierced and incised under a brown glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top and right hand edge
- Text: 'Lent By' (printed); 'Brangwyn' (typed), '66' hand written, on the upper right hand side smaller hand written pencil ‘69’ (crossed through )
- Location: Exterior base (underside foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: in pencil
- Text: '66'
- Location: Exterior base (underside foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: pink, rectangular, serrated edge
- Text: خرید و فروش این بارچه که وزن مجموعش
با قبض نمره معا در داخله ایران مجاز است
- Location: Lower exterior body
- Method of creation: Typed
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.164-1935
Primary reference Number: 72374
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.66
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
