Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware with white glaze painted with lustre
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque, white, slightly crazed glaze painted with yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: cono-segmental bowl with a plain rim and foot ring
Interior: On the rim, hemispherical cartouches containing kneeling figures are separated by friezes of Arabic script (kufic). On the body, a series of roughly spherical cartouches each contain a seated figure. The figures in both cartouches are roughly painted in reserve lustre; and wear a spotted robe and a headdress. Around the spherical cartouches detailed arabesques and half palmettes containing a cross-hatch pattern are painted in lustre.
Exterior: a simple, repeating scrolling pattern is contained above and below by concentric bands; both painted in lustre. The glaze covers the surface to the mid point on the foot ring.
Notes
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Legal notes
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
Height: 8.1 cm
Weight: 303 g
Width: 19.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Monumental style
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre painting)
glaze
( opaque, white, slightly crazed)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre painting)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( opaque, white, slightly crazed glaze runs to a mid point on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 19.7 cm
Base
Diameter 7.5 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Buff fritware bowl, wheel thrown, with an opaque, white, slightly crazed glaze painted with yellow-brown lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: friezes of script are separated by hemi-spherical cartouches containing seated figures
- Location: Interior rim
- Method of creation: Painted in lustre
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: Circular paper label with serrated edge
- Text: 313/a
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Hand written in pencil
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.447-1991
Primary reference Number: 75129
Packing number: ISCER 999
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 12 June 2012
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
