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Fritware painted in five colours in or on a white glaze and gilded
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, coated in an opaque white, crazed glaze with slip to create relief effect. Painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and red, black with gold leaf gilding over the glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: the rim is gilded with small regular relief bosses. On the neck, a frieze containing blue Arabic script interspersed with turquoise leaves and red dots all separated by blue roundels containing wavey lines. In the roundel, a horseman wearing a turquoise tunic, with a quiver and arrows hanging from his belt, rides a blue horse with red ears and hooves; all of which are outlined in black with red and gold highlights and discreet areas of relief. In the background, scrolling vegetation, on which birds are perched, is depicted in relief with gilding and red outlines.
Exterior: on the rim a frieze of gilded diamonds on a turquoise background are outlined in red. On the body, lobbed diamond cartouches contain a turquoise dot that is frequently gilded and outlined in red. Glaze runs over the foot ring unevenly with turquoise colouration on the extremity, the underside of the foot ring is coloured turquoise.
History note: Oscar Raphael Bequest
Oscar Raphel Bequest
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 422 g
Width: 21 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1175
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise and purple (in-glaze), red and black (over-glaze))
gold leaf
( in discreet areas)
glaze
( white)
slip
Exterior Body
composed of
gold leaf
( in discreet areas)
pigment
( turquoise (in-glaze), red, black (overglaze))
glaze
( white, runs over the exterior foot ring unevenly with turquoise colouration on the extremity)
Rim
Diameter 21 cm
Base
Diameter 8.8 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, wheel thrown, coated in an opaque white, crazed glaze with slip to create relief effect. Painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and red, black with gold leaf gilding over the glaze
Inscription present: a frieze containing blue Arabic script interspersed with turquoise leaves and red dots all separated by blue roundels containing wavey lines
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated top and bottom edges
Inscription present: square paper label
Inscription present: circular paper label
Accession number: OC.158-1946
Primary reference Number: 77591
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77591 Accessed: 2024-11-24 19:10:00
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