Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre.
Shape: carinated bowl with 'hammer head' rim, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: on the rim an undulating concentric line painted in lustre is framed by a lustre bands. On the body a frieze of palmettes, reserved on a dotted lustre ground, is painted above lustre scrolls which form a wave like pattern. In the roundel an ass with dotted coat prances amongst palmette trees and rosettes, with a bird flying overhead and fish swimming in water below, all reserved on a dotted lustre ground. The ass and sections of the body are splashed with blue or turquoise pigment.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a band of blue. On the neck a pseudo calligraphic band is painted in blue and lustre. On the body plamettes are painted in lustre and are framed by lustre bands.
Legal notes
Purchased from the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 10.5 cm
Weight: 893 g
Width: 22.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
13th Century, second half
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1299
CE
School or Style
Il-Khanid
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the surface to the foot ring where it terminates unevenly)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Interior Body
composed of
pigment
( splashes of blue, turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 22.5 cm
Base
Diameter 8.7 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
- Text: 'Lent By' (printed); 'Brangwyn' (typed), '15' hand written in black ink, ‘50’, hand written in pencil (encircled in the top right hand corner) and ‘97’ (crossed through on the right hand side)
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.89-1935
Primary reference Number: 76297
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.15
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
