IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71051 accession number: C.59-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 November 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, wheel thrown and mould made, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in lustre. Shape: pear shaped body on a low, flaring foot ring, a collared neck ascends to a bird\rquote s head spout. A strap handle with thumb rest is attached to the neck and body. Exterior: the bird head spout and neck are painted with lustre, incised with features including eyes, feathers and scalloped lines. On the body two inscriptions, incised through a lustre band and delineated by blue concentric lines, frame a frieze of panels. Those panels are divided by vertical inscriptions painted in lustre and contain arabesques, painted in blue and turquoise and reserved on a lustred ground enclosing split palmettes. On the base a scalloped band and vertical dashes are painted in lustre. Handle is painted with a lustre and has an inscription incised on the exterior. The glaze terminates on the foot ring, where it covers the surface unevenly. Interior: the rim is painted with a lustre band, glaze runs over the surface as far as is visible. object type: fritware coated in a white glaze, painted in blue, turquoise and lustre title: ewer 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/71051 CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1200 - 1220 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1220 culture: 13th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 430 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- Gurgan Faiences The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Persian Lustre Ware Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution Perpetual Glory Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. 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