Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware incised through a cream slip and painted in green under a clear glaze
Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, incised through a cream slip, coloured green on the rim and covered with a clear glaze.
Interior: the rim is coloured with green pigment. On the upper body a narrow band of scrolling vegetation is incised above a wider frieze of palmettes reserved on a hatched background. In the roundel a stylised lion is also incised on a hatched background. All covered with a clear glaze
Exterior: green pigment continues on the rim. White slip covered in a clear glaze continues to the lower body
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 8.6 cm
Weight: 328 g
Width: 18 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
11th-12th Century
Circa
1000
-
Circa
1199
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( clear, covers slip and continues onto lower body)
slip
( cream, continues to the lower body)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( clear)
slip
( cream)
Rim
composed of
pigment
( green)
Diameter 18 cm
Base
Diameter 8.6 cm
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown , incised through a cream slip, coloured green on the rim and covered with a clear glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
- Text: 'Lent By' (printed); 'Brangwyn' (typed), '6' hand written in black ink, ‘6’, hand written in pencil (encircled in the top right hand corner) and ‘4’ (crossed through on the right hand side)
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: inscribed directly onto the vessel surface
- Text: 120
- Location: Exterior lower bowl
- Method of creation: Hand written in pencil
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.44-1935
Primary reference Number: 75109
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.120
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
