Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Frtiware decorated with slip and painted in three colours under a white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, decorated with slip to create relief and painted in blue, turquoise and black all under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl on a narrow foot ring base
Interior: a black band is painted on the rim. On the neck a frieze of white or blue curled leaves are painted on a black dotted ground. On the body a radiating design of pointed triangular panels are filled with turquoise or blue curled leaves, alternately reserved in blue or on a black dotted ground.
Exterior: a black band is painted on the rim. On the body blue and black dots and lines are enclosed on the lower section by concentric black bands.
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 8.6 cm
Weight: 320 g
Width: 17.9 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
13th Century, Mid-14th Century, Mid
Circa
1260
-
Circa
1350
School or Style
Il-Khanid
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( transparent, white, covers the surface to the lower body)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise and black)
slip
( to create relief effect)
Rim
Diameter 17.9 cm
Base
Diameter 5.2 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, decorated with slip to create relief and painted in blue, turquoise and black all under a transparent white glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
- Text: 'Lent By' (printed); 'Brangwyn' (typed), '24' (hand written in black), '43' (hand written in pencil, encircled)
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: written directly onto object surface
- Text: ‘24’
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Hand written in pencil
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.83-1935
Primary reference Number: 76196
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.24
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
