Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Cream fritware with painted and pierced decoration under a clear glaze
Cream fritware, wheel thrown, with blue and black underglaze paint and a pierced frieze on the upper body, all covered with a clear glaze, heavily crazed in places.
Shape: Finely potted biconical bowl with a carination on the lower body; plain rim and moderately high foot ring.
Interior: Band of Arabic script (cursive) around the rim, painted in reserve against a black background. On the upper body an open-work frieze, comprising pierced holes forming arabesques, is enclosed between two black painted concentric lines. On the base, a cross-shaped floral design is painted in blue with black highlighting. Three spur marks are visible on the base resulting from stacking, using trivets, during firing.
Exterior: Rim has a repeating crescent shape pattern in black below which the upper body is decorated with the reverse pierced pattern, designed to be viewed from the interior. A wide concentric line is painted in black on the lower body. The transparent glaze covers the body to the foot ring.
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 10 cm
Weight: 375 g
Width: 22.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( transparent)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue and black)
glaze
( transparent, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 22.5 cm
Base
Diameter 8.9 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Cream fritware, wheel thrown, with painted and pierced decoration under a clear glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: band of script around the rim, painted in reserve against a black background
- Location: Interior rim
- Method of creation: Painted in reserve
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: Pink rectangular label with serrated edge in poor condition with a central section missing; additional label with a blue border is almost destroyed, it is applied to this central section
- Text: Arabic script, hand written on left and printed on right
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Hand written in black; printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top and right hand edge
- Text: "LENT BY" (printed in black) /Brangwyn (typed in purple) /"No." (printed) 3 (65) (hand written in black); "55 " (hand written in pencil and crossed out)
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.166-1935
Primary reference Number: 72408
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.3
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
