IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72652 accession number: C.18.3-1948 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 6 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Long Description: Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragments body tones ranging from grey to reddish, some coated with cream slips, enhanced with light and dark brown pigment and incised under yellow glazes A: Shape: fragment of a bowl with convex walls and inverted rim, sitting on a low foot ring Interior: yellow glaze applied over a cream slip, the rim enhanced with brown pigment under the glaze, and a triple incised line on the upper body. On the base an interweaving six-pointed star pattern is incised over a ground densely spiralling scribbled lines and vegetal decoration, the same background is repeated in a band enclosing the star. Exterior: light brown surface colour produced by yellow glaze applied direct to the body, undecorated B: Shape: base and part of lower body of carinated cup standing on a small flaring foot ring, with straight sides, collared above the carination Interior: Very pale yellow glaze applied over a cream slip; a large finely-incised six-pointed rosette infilled with brown on the base is encircled by two double lines on the lower body, above which the bottom of a lobed decoration enhanced with light brown glaze is partly visible Exterior: pale yellow glaze over a cream slip running over the foot ring, decorated above the carination with parallel vertical dark brown lines painted under the glaze C: Shape: fragment of rim and upper body of a thin-walled vessel with straight sides flaring outwards slightly Interior: Yellow glaze over a cream slip, concentric lines below the rim and at the bottom of the fragment enclose an incised calligraphic band, the letters are defined with a thicker layer of slip creating a relief effect and paler tone under the glaze Exterior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, within concentric lines under the rim an incised band of s-shaped motifs is painted in alternating light and dark brown pigments and thicker layers of slip creating a paler tone D: Shape: small irregular fragment, with thin rounded walls Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, under an incised line below the rim is a group of incised calligraphy, the letters defined with a thicker layer of slip creating a relief effect and paler tone under the glaze Exterior: brown surface colour produced by a yellow glaze applied direct to the body, undecorated E Cypriot, Paphos ware 14th Century Shape: angular, out-turned foot ring and base Interior: hatched medallion design incised through pale yellowy-green glaze over a speckled cream slip Exterior: unglazed apart from one splash running down from the now-missing lower body object type: Five earthenware fragments, with and without cream slips, enhanced with light and dark brown pigment and incised under yellow glazes title: sherd NOTES ----- type: history note value: From Farouk I University Alexandria LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72652 TECHNIQUES ---------- Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragments body tones ranging from grey to reddish, some coated with cream slips, enhanced with light and dark brown pigment and incised under yellow glazes throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1250 - 1399 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1399 culture: 13th Century, Late-14th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Renaissance of Islam. Art of the Mamluks Céramiques médiévales à Alexandrie. Contribution à l’histoire économiques de la ville Ceramic Evidence for Political Transformations in Early Mamluk Egypt Ceramics from Islamic Lands Pottery of the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods in Israel Colours of Medieval Cyprus, through the Medieval Ceramic Collection of the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia Archaeological Excavations at Kom-el-Dik. A Preliminary Report on the Medieval Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_18_3_1948.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/mid_C_18_3_1948.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_18_3_1948.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/preview_C_18_3_1948.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels