IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75281 accession number: C.49-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White glazed hard-paste porcelain dish (swatow ware) with Arabic inscriptions in overglazed red, green, and black enamels. The flat interior bottom has a large rondel surrounded by an incription, stating that it was made for Fantad Khan, servant of Akbar Kahn (third Mughal Emperor), with eight smaller rondels, which are separated by the same inscription. Above the rondels and encircling the interior lip rim is another long inscription. The base and foot are glazed with sand adhering The centre contains extracts from the Koran. Rondels 2, 5 and 6 contain extracts from the Koran. Rondels 3 and 7 have inscriptions from the Islamic creed. Rondels 4 and 8 show the name of the owner. Dishes like this one are commonly found in Indonesia, as they are thought to have been ordered from China by the sultans of Aceh in the northwest of Sumatra. It has been suggested that the design of this type of dish was based on the royal seal called Siap Sikureung (nine-fold seal) or Cap Halilintar (lightning), which represented the lineage of kings, and was central to Acehness identity. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: No record, though label says that the dish was purchased in January 1922, for £5 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by W.M. Tapp, LL.D STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75281 TECHNIQUES ---------- overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- glaze CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ culture: Ming Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment title: Image and Text CITATIONS -------- Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections. 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