Ewer: C.62-2019

Current Location: Gallery 33

Maker(s)

Entities

Description

Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with blue and lustre

Fritware, wheel thrown and mould made, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and over the glaze in lustre.
Shape: pear shaped body flaring towards the rim, sits on a low foot ring. Angled spout attached to the body and a strap handle with thumb rest attached to the neck and body.
Exterior: on the rim, neck and lower body inscriptions are painted in lustre or incised through a lustre band. On the body, panels containing arabesques, surrounded by half palmettes, are reserved in lustre or painted in blue on a lustre ground containing incised scrolls and divided by vertical panels with lustre inscriptions. On the lower body, a chain stripe pattern is painted in lustre above a lustre band on the foot ring. On the spout, further palmettes are reserved in lustre, on the handle a cable pattern is painted in lustre and framed by lustre panels. Glaze terminates on the foot ring where it covers the surface unevenly.
Interior: a lustre band is painted on the rim above a calligraphic (or possibly pseudo calligraphic) band painted in lustre. Glaze terminates on the neck.

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: 17.6 cm
Weight: 554 g
Width: 15.3 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Place(s) associated

Kashan ⪼ central Asia

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family

Dating

Early 13th Century
Circa 1200 CE - Circa 1220 CE

Note

Kashan style

School or Style

Seljuk

Components of the work

Exterior composed of pigment ( blue) oxide colours ( lustre) glaze ( white, terminates on the foot ring where it covers the surface unevenly)
Interior Neck/rim composed of oxide colours ( lustre) glaze ( white, terminates on the neck)
Rim Diameter 7.5 cm
Base Diameter 8.4 cm
Body
Spout, Handle