Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a lustre band. On the upper body a frieze of lustre dots and scrolls is divided into panels by horizontal lines. On the lower body an inscription is painted. In the roundel a seated figures wearing a hat and dotted robe holds a cup aloft in his right hand and is surrounded by scrolling palmettes, all reserved in lustre.
Exterior: the lustre band continues on the rim. On the body roundels, separated by paired vertical lines, contain scrolling half palmettes. The glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring and covers the underside thinly.
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: 7.8 cm
Weight: 288 g
Width: 18 cm
Place(s) associated
Find spot
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Note
Monumental style
School or Style
Seljuk
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, runs unevenly onto the foot ring and covers the underside thinly)
Rim
Diameter 18 cm
Base
Diameter 5.9 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: Arabic script (thuluth)
- Location: Interior lower body
- Method of creation: Hand painted in lustre
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: small black rectangular paper
- Text: ‘57’
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Printed
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
- Text: ‘40’
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white circular paper label
- Text: ‘Lent by / R.Ades, 1948 / No. 45’
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
- Text: ‘13/99 Ades’
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Hand written in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.58-2019
Primary reference Number: 71042
Old object number: AL.45-1948
Previous ID: AL.14-1983
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 17 February 2022
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
