IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17561
accession number:	C.2095-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 9 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, mould made, painted in turquoise, yellow, blue, green with a brown outline, under (or in) a white glaze
Shape: rectangular panel comprising fifty tiles in ten rows of five, enclosed in a light wood frame
Upper surface: sprouting from a central winged vase a floral spray, including saz leaves and rosettes in which two birds perch, dominates the surface. At the edges of the panel, two columns with capitals support a pointed archway whose spandrels enclosing scrolling floral sprays. 
Lower surface: not visible due to wall hanging
title:	tile panel

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From a house in Tunis, where it was in a room with six such panels,  and it was made up from tiles from more than one of them; sold by unknown vendor to Boccara père, Souk des Femmes, Tunis; sold by him for £13.0.0 in January 1906 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17561


SUBJECTS
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vase
birds
flowers
foliage
vase
birds
flowers
foliage



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, mould made, painted in turquoise, yellow, blue, green with a brown outline, under (or in) a white glaze
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: glazed earthenware
category: Islamic pottery

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 151

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 78



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Qallaline Tile Panels: Tile Pictures in North Africa
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