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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware coated in a white slip, carved and incised under a green glaze
Brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip carved and incised under a green glaze
Shape: conical bowl with a disc base and slightly in-turned rim
Interior: below the rim a carved frieze of floriated kufic script is contained within incised concentric lines. Glaze pools in the lower body.
Exterior: cream slip and green tinted glaze cover the upper body unevenly.
History note: Excavated at Zanjan
Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 4.9 cm
Weight: 143 g
Width: 10.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1905-04-06) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
12th Century-13th Century
Circa
1100
-
Circa
1299
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
slip
( cream, abraded)
glaze
( green, abraded)
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( green)
Rim
Diameter 10.6 cm
Base
Diameter 3.9 cm
Throwing : Brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip carved and incised under a green glaze
Accession number: C.8-1923
Primary reference Number: 76155
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76155 Accessed: 2024-11-02 20:13:00
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University of Cambridge}}
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