Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black, green and red under a colourless glaze.
Shape: bulbous pear shaped jug, flaring slightly towards the rim and sitting on a foot ring base. A handle is connected to the rim and to the mid point of the body.
Exterior: on the body and neck two friezes of tulips are outlined in black and coloured with red, painted on a green or blue fish scale pattern. Defining these friezes are narrow concentric bans of a black guilloche pattern below the rim, black and red chevron and dotted half rosettes on the lower neck and black scrolling lines on the lower body. The handle is painted with black horizontal dashes, framed on the sides with a blue vertical line. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring.
Interior: undecorated except for glaze.
Notes
History note: From the collection of Alfred A. de Pass
Legal notes
Given by Alfred A. de Pass
Measurements and weight
Height: 24.2 cm
Weight: 841 g
Width: 16.1 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1933)
by
de Pass, Alfred A.
Dating
16th Century, Late
Circa
1575
-
Circa
1580
School or Style
Ottoman
Components of the work
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black, green and red)
Rim
Diameter 8.5 cm
Base
Diameter 9.2 cm
Materials used in production
colourless, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black, green and red under a colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: a rectangular white paper label with corners cut away
- Text: blue printed border, ‘Rhodian Ewer / Tulips on a blue and green / scale foallerum ground/16th cent./Murray Marks & de Pass coll.’ (hand written in black)
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: oval white paper label
- Text: ‘FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM / GIVEN BY / ALFRED A. DE PASS / 1933’
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.140-1933
Primary reference Number: 137706
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 7 February 2019
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
