Fritware jar with decorative friezes

An image of Jar. Unknown potter, Iran. Islamic pottery. Shape: inverted pear-shaped body, ascending onto a collared neck and indented rectangular rim, sits on a flat disc base that protrudes from the lower body. Exterior: on the body three decorative friezes incorporate medallions painted with various scenes. On the upper register quatre foils with polychrome floral sprays and lozenges with square ends containing brown buildings flanked by trees, all painted on a red cross-hatched ground. The central frieze incorporates lobbed diamonds containing vases of polychrome flowers or landscape scenes, some of which are framed, in pink or blue. The spandrels between these medallions contain floral sprays. On the lowest resister lobbed diamonds contain rosettes reserved in blue of brown floral sprays. Dividing these friezes and on the neck, bands of circles, lozenges or squares, with the red examples often defined by a white outline and reserved in blue. The rim is partially covered with yellow and just above the base a band of brown scrolling vegetation is painted. Glaze runs over the lower body and foot ring unevenly. Interior: a green glaze coats the body, running over onto the white glaze of the neck in one place. Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with red, yellow, blue, green and brown enamels. Height, whole, 44.5 cm, width, whole, 26.5 cm, diameter, rim, 13.5 cm, diameter, base, 17.5 cm, weight, whole, 6190 g, circa 1800-circa 1899. Qajar period.

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Jar. Unknown potter, Iran. Islamic pottery. Shape: inverted pear-shaped body, ascending onto a collared neck and indented rectangular rim, sits on a flat disc base that protrudes from the lower body. Exterior: on the body three decorative friezes incorporate medallions painted with various scenes. On the upper register quatre foils with polychrome floral sprays and lozenges with square ends containing brown buildings flanked by trees, all painted on a red cross-hatched ground. The central frieze incorporates lobbed diamonds containing vases of polychrome flowers or landscape scenes, some of which are framed, in pink or blue. The spandrels between these medallions contain floral sprays. On the lowest resister lobbed diamonds contain rosettes reserved in blue of brown floral sprays. Dividing these friezes and on the neck, bands of circles, lozenges or squares, with the red examples often defined by a white outline and reserved in blue. The rim is partially covered with yellow and just above the base a band of brown scrolling vegetation is painted. Glaze runs over the lower body and foot ring unevenly. Interior: a green glaze coats the body, running over onto the white glaze of the neck in one place. Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with red, yellow, blue, green and brown enamels. Height, whole, 44.5 cm, width, whole, 26.5 cm, diameter, rim, 13.5 cm, diameter, base, 17.5 cm, weight, whole, 6190 g, circa 1800-circa 1899. Qajar period.

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Accession Number: C.1786-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 801 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 639.67kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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19th Century AD blue diamond shaped diamonds enamel enamelled Fitz_AA floral flowers frieze frit fritware glazed green Iranian Islamic jar lozenge lozenges medallions pear shaped pink polychrome pottery Qajar Dynasty Qajar Period quatrefoil rosette rosettes spandrels spray sprays thrown vessel wheel thrown

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