These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Dish. Miniature style. Islamic pottery. Unknown potter, Iran, probably Kashan. Shape: dish with a flange rim and a low foot ring. Interior: a concentric band covers the rim, below a frieze of pseudo-calligraphy comprising vertical lines and dots interspersed with spirals. The central decoration comprises a dog and mounted horse whose harness is decorated with a peacock’s eye pattern and blanket is decorated with scrolls. The horse rider wears a headdress and a tunic decorated with spirals over trousers with a pattern of triangular dots. Both the body of the horse, and dog, are covered with large dots and small dashes. Scrolling vegetation, including solid palmettes, decorate the background. All decoration is painted in lustre. Exterior: on the body, a frieze of simple repeating arabesques, painted with a single stroke, are separated by pairs of vertical lines and enclosed by concentric lines. Both are painted in lustre. Glaze runs over the body to a point just above or just below the start of the foot ring. Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze and yellow-brown lustre painted decoration. Height, whole, 5.7 cm, diameter, rim, 23 cm, diameter, base, 9.2 cm, circa 1179-1198. Seljuk. Acquisition: bequeathed 1950; Henry Scipio Reitlinger.
rgb(96,82,64), rgb(228,228,227), rgb(173,152,124), rgb(105,104,103), rgb(197,188,173), rgb(161,163,163), rgb(186,138,79), rgb(184,187,190), rgb(108,116,108), rgb(176,163,159), rgb(212,172,84)
This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
"Miniature style fritware dish"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-44209 Accessed: 2024-11-05 15:32:07
To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-44209
|title=Miniature style fritware dish
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 15:32:07|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-214189
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_c_433_1991_1_201405_kly25_dc2.jpg" alt="Dish" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Miniature style fritware dish</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...