Fritware bowl, Seljuk

An image of Islamic pottery. Bowl. Production Place: Kashan. Shape: bi-conical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a low foot ring. Interior: a dentilated black band is painted on the rim. On the body radiating triangular panels, alternately highlighted with blue contain an inscription (scratched through the pigment) or blue arabesque respectively. Between the panels three stylised black leaf sprays are painted in a vertical linear band. Exterior: on the rim a black band is painted, while on the body black waterweeds form a horizontal frieze. Glaze runs over the lower body and foot ring, with spots of glaze on the underside of the base. Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black and blue under a transparent white glaze, 1200-1220. Seljuk. Lent by the Ades family.

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Islamic pottery. Bowl. Production Place: Kashan. Shape: bi-conical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a low foot ring. Interior: a dentilated black band is painted on the rim. On the body radiating triangular panels, alternately highlighted with blue contain an inscription (scratched through the pigment) or blue arabesque respectively. Between the panels three stylised black leaf sprays are painted in a vertical linear band. Exterior: on the rim a black band is painted, while on the body black waterweeds form a horizontal frieze. Glaze runs over the lower body and foot ring, with spots of glaze on the underside of the base. Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black and blue under a transparent white glaze, 1200-1220. Seljuk. Lent by the Ades family.

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Accession Number: AL.5-1976
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 811 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 137.88kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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13th Century _WF_Loan _WF_Loan_Ades arabesque black blue bowl dentilated fritware glazed inscribed inscriptions Iranian Islamic Kashan Medieval panelled panels pottery Seljuk Seljuq Dynasty stonepaste thrown wheel thrown

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