Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware coated in white slip carved and covered with a clear or coloured glaze
Brown earthenware, wheel thrown, interior is coated in a carved white slip covered with a clear glaze coloured green on the exterior.
Shape: conical bowl with slightly in-turned rim sits on a disc base, cut away on the underside.
Interior: covering the entire body a cream slip is carved to form a sphinx surrounded by palmettes and scrolling vegetation. The sphinx is decorated with jewelled bands on the neck and legs and with a medallion containing scrolling vegetation on the rear. All covered with a clear glaze with splashes of brown and green.
Exterior: a clear glaze coloured with green runs unevenly from the rim onto the upper body.
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 7.3 cm
Weight: 407 g
Width: 17.3 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century-13th Century
19th Century-20th Century, Early
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1299
CE
Circa
1850
CE
-
Circa
1925
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Qajar (1779-1924)
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
glaze
( clear with splashes of green and brown)
slip
( white)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( coloured green runs unevenly from rim onto upper body)
Rim
Diameter 17.3 cm
Base
Diameter 6.4 cm
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Brown earthenware, wheel thrown, interior is coated in a carved white slip covered with a clear glaze coloured green on the exterior
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: pink paper label with serrated edge on the lower side and edges
- Text: Arabic script (printed in black and blue, undeciphered), ‘116’ (hand written in pencil)
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
- Text: black rectangular printed border, 'Lent by' (printed in black), 'Brangwyn' (typed in black), '116' (hand written in black), 'A' (hand written in pencil), '8' (within a circle, hand written in pencil)
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: paper label, partially ripped off
- Text: cable pattern reserved in red
- Location: Exterior upper body
- Method of creation: Printed
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.45-1935
Primary reference Number: 75152
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.116
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
