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Bowl: C.170-1935

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Potter: Unknown

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Description

Fritware, incised and splashed with blue under a clear glaze

Cream fritware, wheel thrown with lightly incised decoration and splashes of blue paint under a clear crazed and pitted glaze.
Shape: Segmental bowl with flat rim and a low foot ring, cut away on the interior.
Interior: A frieze of lightly incised decoration on the upper body, possibly an Arabic inscription. Four splashes of blue colouring at roughly regular intervals on the upper body. The central roundel is incised with four small scrolls and has a dot of blue colouring.
Exterior: undecorated except for a clear glaze that extends down to lower body.

Notes

History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased

Legal notes

Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 5.8 cm
Weight: 312 g
Width: 20.8 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Tell Minis ⪼ Syria

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank

Dating

12th Century
Circa 1100 CE - 1199 CE

School or Style

Seljuk

Components of the work

Interior composed of pigment ( blue) glaze ( transparent)
Exterior Upper Body composed of glaze ( transparent)
Rim Diameter 20.8 cm
Base Diameter 8.4 cm

Materials used in production

Fritware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Cream fritware, wheel thrown with lightly incised decoration and splashes of blue paint under a clear crazed and pitted glaze

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: frieze of lightly incised decoration on the upper body, possibly an arabic inscription

  • Location: Interior upper body
  • Method of creation: Incised
  • Type: Inscription

Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top, bottom and right hand edge

  • Text: "LENT BY" (printed in black) /Brangwyn (typed in purple) /"No." (printed); 57 (hand written in black); "72 " and "67" (hand written in pencil)
  • Location: Inside foot
  • Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: inscription directly onto surface of vessel

  • Text: illegible, under Brangwyn label
  • Location: Inside foot
  • Method of creation: Hand written in pencil
  • Type: Inscription

Inscription present: paper label was at one point placed over the Brangwyn label but has been torn off leaving remnants of paper

  • Text: 0
  • Location: Inside foot
  • Method of creation: Hand written in pencil
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.170-1935
Primary reference Number: 72479
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.57
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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