Fritware dish with an enthroned figure

An image of Islamic pottery, Minai. Dish. Unknown potter, Iran. Shape: plain rim on a shallow, hemispherical bowl sitting on a wide, moderately high foot ring. Interior: a grey dentilated pattern on the rim above a thin black concentric line, both framing decoration on the body which is outlined and detailed in black and painted in black, red and shades of grey. This design comprises an enthroned figure, flanked by attendants to the right and left, as well as by griffins and arabesques above and below. The attendant figures have one arm raised toward the enthroned figure, all of them wearing gold leaf arm bands. Both humans and griffins wear red or grey hats and their robes, or coats, are painted in grey or red and are lightly incised with a variety of patterns from circles to swirling tendrils. The pointed leaves of the arabesques are painted with grey and are adorned with red dots. Exterior: rim is painted in grey. A thick, even glaze covers the surface to the mid point on the exterior of the foot ring. Fritware, thrown. coated in a thick, crazed white glaze painted (probably over the glaze) with black, red, shades of grey and gilding. Height, whole, 7 cm, width, whole, 18.5 cm, diameter, base, 8 cm, weight, whole, 352 g, circa 1180-1219. Seljuk.

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Islamic pottery, Minai. Dish. Unknown potter, Iran. Shape: plain rim on a shallow, hemispherical bowl sitting on a wide, moderately high foot ring. Interior: a grey dentilated pattern on the rim above a thin black concentric line, both framing decoration on the body which is outlined and detailed in black and painted in black, red and shades of grey. This design comprises an enthroned figure, flanked by attendants to the right and left, as well as by griffins and arabesques above and below. The attendant figures have one arm raised toward the enthroned figure, all of them wearing gold leaf arm bands. Both humans and griffins wear red or grey hats and their robes, or coats, are painted in grey or red and are lightly incised with a variety of patterns from circles to swirling tendrils. The pointed leaves of the arabesques are painted with grey and are adorned with red dots. Exterior: rim is painted in grey. A thick, even glaze covers the surface to the mid point on the exterior of the foot ring. Fritware, thrown. coated in a thick, crazed white glaze painted (probably over the glaze) with black, red, shades of grey and gilding. Height, whole, 7 cm, width, whole, 18.5 cm, diameter, base, 8 cm, weight, whole, 352 g, circa 1180-1219. Seljuk.

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Accession Number: C.135-1935
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 889 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 120.16kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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12th Century 13th Century AD arabesque attendants crazed dentilated dish enthroned figures Fitz_AA frit fritware gilded gilding glazed gold leaf griffin griffon gryphon Iranian Islamic Minai minai'i ware overglaze painted pottery robes rulers Seljuk Seljuq Dynasty stonepaste throne thrown winged wings

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