IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74638 accession number: C.35-1911 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip on which decoration is outlined in black and coloured in blue (unless otherwise stated) under a clear glaze. Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim stands on a foot ring. Interior: below the blue rim a concentric frieze of petals and tree trunks are painted. On the body a frieze of flower heads are depicted on a background of scrolling vegetation. Within a roundel defined by a concentric band of ‘S’ shapes, a floral spray sprouts from a mound alongside further scrolling vegetation. Slight defect in the glaze on the roundel. Exterior: blue paint continues on the rim below which two friezes, similar to those on the interior body, are painted. On the lower body, a concentric blue band and on the foot ring two blue concentric lines are painted. Glaze runs over the surface unevenly onto the exterior foot ring and also covers the underside of the base. object type: fritware coated in a white slip painted in black and blue under a clear glaze title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 122 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74638 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower heads flower heads TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip on which decoration is outlined in black and coloured in blue (unless otherwise stated) under a clear glaze. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting underglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) TECHNIQUES ---------- slip-coating CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1899 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1899 culture: Qajar (1779-1924)# culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.7 dimension: Weight units: g value: 541 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22.6 CITATIONS -------- The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq. Islamische Keramik Ceramics Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum Almost Hilariously Bad: Iranian Pottery in the Nineteenth Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_35_1911_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/mid_C_35_1911_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_35_1911_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/preview_C_35_1911_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_35_1911_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/mid_C_35_1911_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_35_1911_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/preview_C_35_1911_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels