Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown and mould made, coated in white glaze painted with lustre.
Shape: globular body, descending onto a foot ring. Collared neck and cup-shaped, lobed mouth.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a lustre band; on the mouth and neck, friezes of chain stripe pattern are divided by further lustre bands. On the body vertical lustre stripes radiate between a lustre band on the lower and upper body, the latter is inscribed with naskh script. Glaze covers the surface to the lower body and foot ring where is terminates unevenly.
Interior: the rim is painted with a lustre band and on the neck a kufic inscription is painted in lustre. Glaze covers the mouth only.
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: 26 cm
Weight: 788 g
Width: 15.6 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
Interior Mouth
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the mouth only)
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the surface to the lower body and foot ring where is terminates unevenly)
Rim
Diameter 6.7 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Body
Mouth
Inscription present: incised through a lustre band
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
Accession number: C.96-2019
Primary reference Number: 71059
Previous ID: AL.30-1948
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) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71059 Accessed: 2023-06-09 15:54:43
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71059
|title=Bottle
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-09 15:54:43|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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