IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72655 accession number: C.18.6-1948 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 21 September 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Reddish-brown wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragments coated with a cream slip incised under a yellow glaze, the pattern enhanced with areas of brown glaze on A and C. A: Shape: Fragment; section of lower body with convex sides on a straight foot ring Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip coating. Two incised concentric circles frame the base, which bears a tripartite repeated floral pattern carved through the slip. Around this frame the lower body portion is decorated with a scalloped pattern which radiates upwards in short straight lines Exterior: Undecorated yellow glaze applied direct to the body. The glaze runs over the foot ring, the underside left unglazed apart from some splashing B: Shape: Fragment, with flaring foot ring, base and part of carinated lower body with stepped straight sides sloping outwards Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip coating. Part of an incised circle frames the base, patterned with alternating parallel registers of abstract floral designs on a scribbled spiralling ground, and s-shaped motifs. Exterior: Undecorated yellow glaze applied over a cream slip over the whole surface and running into the underside of the foot ring. C: Shape: Fragment; section of lower body with slightly convex sides on an angled foot ring Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip coating. On the base, a series of parallel lines, enhanced with brown glaze, emanate from a crescent shape with flaring base, possibly a heraldic blazon. In the background, a pattern of densely spiralling scribbled ground. Exterior: Undecorated yellow glaze applied over a cream slip, running over the foot ring in places object type: Three earthenware fragments, all coated with a cream slip and incised under a yellow glaze, A and C enhanced with areas of brown glaze 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/72655 TECHNIQUES ---------- Reddish-brown wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragments coated with a cream slip incised under a yellow glaze, the pattern enhanced with areas of brown glaze on A and C. 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 Ceramic Evidence for Political Transformations in Early Mamluk Egypt Pottery of the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods in Israel 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_6_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_6_1948.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_18_6_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_6_1948.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels