Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Fritware painted in blue under a clear glaze with partial brown glazed exterior
Fritware, moulded, painted in blue under a clear glaze and with a partial brown over-glazed exterior.
Shape: lobbed bowl with bracketed rim descending via a carination onto a collared stem and pedestal foot.
Interior: the neck is decorated with Kraak panels depicting, alternately, a landscape scene with sprouting vegetation, a bird within a floral spray, or a three stemmed flower amongst scrolling leaves. On the base, contained within a bracketed roundel, a figure is painted in reserve against a blue background. The figure is depicted crossing a bridge within a landscape of sprouting vegetation.
Exterior: upper and lower body is coated with a brown glaze. Between these areas of glaze, just below the carination, a narrow frieze of chevrons is painted. Within the band of brown glaze on the lower body white palmette shapes contain blue painted landscape scenes incorporating stylised pagodas painted. The clear glaze covers the stem runs to the edge of the foot where a concentric band of brown residue is visible.
Notes
History note: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 120
Legal notes
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 14 cm
Weight: 566 g
Width: 16.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1911-03-20)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early
Circa
1675
CE
-
1725
CE
School or Style
Safavid (1501-1738)
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( brown, partially covers surface)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( clear)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( clear, covers the stem runs to the edge of the foot where a concentric band of brown residue is visible)
Rim
Diameter 16.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Fritware, moulded, painted in blue under a clear glaze and with a partial brown over-glazed exterior
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: square paper label with serrated edge
- Text: printed with a red line and hand written in pencil with ‘120/2’
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: circular paper label
- Text: 34/11
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: painted directly onto the vessel surface
- Text: 2647
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand painted in black
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.34-1911
Primary reference Number: 74602
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
