IDENTIFIERS
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id:	28932
accession number:	C.411-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 13 June 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff fritware with carved decoration under a green glaze; probably wheel thrown in sections.
Shape: Finely potted plain rim and cylindrical neck flaring toward the mouth. More coarsely potted ovoid body sits on a low foot ring base; stub remains of a handle on the shoulder.
Exterior: A freeze of carved decoration on the shoulder incorporates Arabic script (kufic) which is interspersed with an abstract vegetal pattern. Green translucent, crazed glaze covers the vessel surface from the rim to the lower body where it gathers in drips around the base.
Interior: Green glaze is applied to the upper neck and runs down towards the body.
object type: Buff fritware with carved decoration under a green glaze
title:	ewer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead


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:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28932





TECHNIQUES
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fritware, wheel-thrown, carved with translucent green glaze
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1100 - 1199
creation date earliest:	1100
creation date latest:	1199
culture:	Fatimid

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.4

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 550

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 14



CITATIONS
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Islamic Pottery, A comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection
Early Islamic Ceramics: Ninth to Late Twelfth Centuries (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Ceramics from Islamic Lands
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