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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in five colours in or on a white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown body and moulded handles and spout, coated in an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze; decorated with blue and turquoise in-glaze painting, black and red overglaze painting and gilding.
Shape: bulbous body with a cylindrical neck and plain rim, sitting on a low foot ring. Opposing cheetah handles and angular spouts are attached to the upper body.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a blue dentilated pattern. On the upper body, a frieze of mounted horsemen and two standing figures each separated by feather-like foliage, are identically dressed in hats, tunics, and leggings, occasionally wearing golf leaf arm bands. This frieze is delineated above and below by narrow bands of Arabic script, possibly pseudo epigraphic. On the lower body, a frieze of alternately transposed triangular floral garlands is painted. All these friezes are outlined in black and coloured with blue, turquoise, red and black. Two lion shaped handles, with red heads and bodies decorated with blue stripes and turquoise and red dots, are joined to the upper body. White glaze runs unevenly over the lower body and in places onto the foot ring.
Interior: blue paint continues on the rim, while on the neck black Arabic script (cursive) is painted. Remainder is undecorated except for a covering of white glaze.
History note: Oscar Raphael Bequest
Oscar Raphel Bequest
Height: 14.5 cm
Weight: 708 g
Width: 17.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1180
CE
-
1219
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue (in-glaze), black (over-glaze))
glaze
( white, crazed)
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise (in-glaze); black, red (over-glaze))
glaze
( white, crazed, runs over the lower body with small areas left uncovered and unevenly onto the foot ring)
Exterior Body
composed of
gold leaf
( small areas of gold leaf form arm bands on the figures)
Rim
Diameter 11.3 cm
Base
Diameter 8.9 cm
Neck
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown body and moulded handles and spout, coated in an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze; decorated with blue and turquoise in-glaze painting, black and red overglaze painting and gilding
Inscription present: horizontal frieze painted over the glaze surface
Inscription present: two narrow horizontal friezes with blue, turquoise or red colouration around script
Inscription present: rectangular paper label, adhered to exterior base (under side of foot ring), with upper and lower edges serrated
Inscription present: white circular label
Accession number: OC.170-1946
Primary reference Number: 77606
Collection number: R 31
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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