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Potter: Unknown
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.
History note: Found at Gurgan
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Height: 21 cm
Weight: 475 g
Width: 14.3 cm
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.
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
Early 13th Century
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Kashan style
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
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre
Inscription present: hand written, incised through a lustre band
Inscription present: black rectangular label
Inscription present: white rectangular label
Accession number: C.95-2019
Primary reference Number: 71057
Previous ID: AL.24-1948
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Ewer" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71057 Accessed: 2023-06-04 15:08:21
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Ewer
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-04 15:08:21|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: OC.33 & A-1946
Accession Number: E.210.1954
Accession Number: C.738-2016
Accession Number: JL.33-1984
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