IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77602
accession number:	OC.166-1946

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 4 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: pinkish fritware, wheel thrown and painted in brown pigment and ustre under or over a white glaze.
Shape: conical bowl with a low foot ring and a plain rim
Interior: on the rim a dentillated pattern is painted in lustre. A dense shoal of fish is painted on the body, swimming in a whorl around the roundel which contains a rosette with overlapping petals. Both fish and rosette are painted in reserve against a lustred background into which scrolls are incised on the body.
Exterior: a dentillated pattern, of larger scale than that on the interior, is painted on the rim. On the body ‘ear muff’ style palmettes are painted in reserve against a lustred background, below which a pair of lustre concentric lines mark the edge of decoration. Glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring.
object type: fritware coated in white glaze painted in lustre and brown paint
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Label indicated probable purchase from Kelekian


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
collection:	Oscar Raphael
creditline: Oscar Raphael Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77602


SUBJECTS
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fish
fish



TECHNIQUES
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pinkish fritware, wheel thrown and painted in brown pigment and lustre under or over a white glaze
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1260 - 1350
creation date earliest:	1260
creation date latest:	1350
culture:	13th Century, Mid-14th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 12

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 3208

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 45.7



CITATIONS
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Masterpieces of Western Ceramic Art, Vol. IV, Islamic Pottery
The Kelekian Collection of Persian and Analogous Potteries 1885-1910
The "Wade Cup" in the Cleveland Museum of Art, its Origin and Decorations
Fish-Pond Ornaments on Persian and Mamluk Metal Vessels
Islamic Pottery, A comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection
Persian Lustre Ware
Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum
Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East
Cup, Branch, Bird and Fish: An Iconographical Study of the Figure Holding a Cup and a Branch Flanked by a Bird and a Fish
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