IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71042 accession number: C.58-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 17 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found at Gurgan LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ades family collection creditline: Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71042 PEOPLE ------------------- seated figure holding a cup TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1170 - 1199 creation date earliest: 1170 creation date latest: 1199 culture: 12th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.8 dimension: Weight units: g value: 288 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Arts of the Islamic Book title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- Islamic Pottery from Iran Early Islamic Pottery Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution Perpetual Glory Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection Persian Lustre Ware The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection ---