Kashan fritware dish with dodecagonal rim

An image of Islamic pottery. Dish with dodecagonal rim. Unknown potter, probably Kashan, Iran. Flat base and straight sides with a flaring, indented dodecagonal rim. The rim edge is painted in lustre. On the body vertical panels alternate between inscriptions reserved in lustre and palmette cartouche containing stylised lustre birds and scrolls. At the join between body and base a further inscription is painted in lustre. On the roundel a lustre rosette is encircled by split palmettes reserved on a lustred ground incised with scrolls. Lustre palmettes are painted between concentric lines. Glaze runs over the lower body. Buff fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted in brown lustre, height 6.6, cm, width 27.5, cm, diameter, rim, 27.5 cm, diameter, base, 18 cm, circa 1200-1220.

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Islamic pottery. Dish with dodecagonal rim. Unknown potter, probably Kashan, Iran. Flat base and straight sides with a flaring, indented dodecagonal rim. The rim edge is painted in lustre. On the body vertical panels alternate between inscriptions reserved in lustre and palmette cartouche containing stylised lustre birds and scrolls. At the join between body and base a further inscription is painted in lustre. On the roundel a lustre rosette is encircled by split palmettes reserved on a lustred ground incised with scrolls. Lustre palmettes are painted between concentric lines. Glaze runs over the lower body. Buff fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted in brown lustre, height 6.6, cm, width 27.5, cm, diameter, rim, 27.5 cm, diameter, base, 18 cm, circa 1200-1220.

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Accession Number: C.53-1998
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/3.1
Focal length: 5
Camera: SZ-10
Photographer name: Nik Zolman
Image height: 667 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 123.56kB
Exposure time: 1/40
ISO Speed: 64
Fnumber: 31/10
Captured: 2017:03:23 15:25:33

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13th Century cartouche dish dodecagonal Fitz_AA frit fritware glazed incised inscribed inscriptions Iranian Islamic Kashan Kashan Style lustre lustre ware lustreware Medieval opaque palmettes pottery scrolls Seljuk Seljuq Dynasty stonepaste tin-glazed

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