Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Fritware coated in white glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre.
Shape: standing bull with curled horns, mounted on a plinth. A spout at the mouth and on the back, a handle attached to the rear spout and head.
Decoration: on the head and horns a muzzle covers the area leaving small white panels for the eyes, which are painted in fine lines. The handle attaches to this muzzle giving the appearance of a restraint. The body and legs are divided into panels by thick lines of lustre that are painted on area of relief moulding to form a harness and saddle cloth. Large circles are drawn on a background of dots and dashes within those panels, except in the semi-ovals beneath the saddle cloth, where a quadruped is reserved on a lustred ground incised with spirals. The glaze covers the plinth unevenly and there is a roughly drawn dotted circle in the centre.
Notes
History note: Found at Gurgan
Legal notes
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Measurements and weight
Height: 18.5 cm
Weight: 414 g
Width: 15.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1200
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
- Text: 5
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label
- Text: 39
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed in white
- Type: Label
Inscription present: oval paper label, printed and hand written in black
- Text: ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCY. 1950 EXHIB’N/107
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.57-2019
Primary reference Number: 71040
Previous ID: AL.13-1983
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 23 November 2023
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
