Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre.
Shape: bulbous body tapering to a foot ring base and carinated at the shoulder leading to a flaring tubular neck. Strap handle with thumb rest is attached to the neck and shoulder.
Exterior: three bands of lustre on the rim, shoulder and lower body divide the surface into three friezes. On the neck a lustre cable pattern is painted above a frieze of birds and blue half palmettes reserved on a lustre ground incised with scrolls. On the body, palmettes and half pamettes, painted in blue and reserved on a lustre ground incised with scrolls, is divided by vertical panels of epigraphy painted in lustre. On the lower body, a chain stripe pattern is painted in lustre. The handle is painted with a lustre cable pattern, framed by solid lustre panels. Glaze runs over the foot ring unevenly.
Interior: lustre paint runs onto the rim and glaze covers the upper 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: 21 cm
Weight: 475 g
Width: 14.3 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
13th Century, Early
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, runs over the foot ring unevenly)
Interior Rim
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Interior Neck
composed of
glaze
( white, covers the upper neck)
Rim
Diameter 3.1 cm
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: hand written, incised through a lustre band
- Location: Exterior rim, shoulder, lower body
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: black rectangular label
- Text: 85
- Location: Lower body
- Method of creation: Printed in white
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white rectangular label
- Text: 16
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.95-2019
Primary reference Number: 71057
Previous ID: AL.24-1948
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 3 September 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
