IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75407
accession number:	C.52-1911

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 3 January 2014

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in blue, red and green under a colourless glaze. Band on the foot and lid are copper alloy, the latter engraved.
Shape: inverted pear shape body on a flaring foot ring base. Topped by a dome shaped metal lid
Exterior: on the body a frieze of two rows of pendant leaf-like medallions outlined in red and filled with a red carnation flower and green sprouting leaves. Between the medallions blue trellis work, while on the lower body a band of lappets and groups of three vertical lines are painted. A blue tassel mark is painted on the underside of the foot. The lid is engraved with floral bands and on the lower section and lappets and scrolling lines on the upper section.
Interior: undecorated except for glaze.
object type: fritware painted in three colours under a colourless glaze. Metal lid and foot.
title:	jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 140, sold with other vessels for 20 guineas


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75407





TECHNIQUES
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fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in blue red and green under a colourless glaze. Band on the foot and lid are copper alloy, the latter engraved.
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1650 - 1699
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1699
culture:	17th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 38.8

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 4148

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 27.8



CITATIONS
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The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq.
Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Third Annual Report
Ceramics
Islamic ceramics
Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum
The Safavid Ceramic Industry at Kirman
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