IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138557 accession number: C.133-1935 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 15 December 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and over the glaze in red, black and flesh tones and leaf gilded. Shape: hemispherical bowl with collared rim and a low foot ring Interior: rim is painted with a blue dentillated pattern above a black band of pseudo-calligraphy painted on a blue background. On the body, a courtly scene comprised a central enthroned figure surrounded by seated humans, harpies, birds and sphinx, two of which have a wolf’s head on their tale. An arabesque is painted between the two pairs of sphinx and a series of inverted ‘V’ shapes and pointed leaves are painted above each human figure. All this decoration is outlined in black and embellished with typical ‘minai’ colours of blue, turquoise, black, red and purple with gilding particularly evident on the garments of the enthroned figure. Exterior: a blue band is barely visible on the rim, on the upper body an Arabic inscription (cursive) is painted in black. The glaze runs unevenly over the foot ring object type: fritware, coated in a white glaze and painted in blue, turquoise, purple, red, black and flesh tones and gilded title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138557 PEOPLE ------------------- enthroned figure, seated figures SUBJECTS ------------------- sphinx harpie sphinx harpie TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white, crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and over the glaze in red, black and flesh tones and leaf gilded. throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1180 - 1219 creation date earliest: 1180 creation date latest: 1219 culture: 12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.7 dimension: Weight units: g value: 360 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.4 CITATIONS -------- Islamic Pottery, A comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution Ceramics from Islamic Lands ---