Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with slightly everted rim, sits on a foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a band of lustre. On the body, a frieze of jewel like motifs is interspersed at regular intervals with scrolls and dots. In the roundel, two opposing birds with heads facing their tails are outlined with a thick line of lustre and surrounding by scrolling half palmettes.
Exterior: the lustre band continues on rim. On the body an inscription is painted in lustre. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring, a thinner coverage on the underside.
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: 6.4 cm
Weight: 213 g
Width: 16 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Monumental style
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring, a thinner coverage on the underside)
Rim
Diameter 16 cm
Base
Diameter 5.8 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription present: Arabic script
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.63-2019
Primary reference Number: 71069
Previous ID: AL.47-1948
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 (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71069 Accessed: 2024-11-13 17:29:05
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71069
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-13 17:29:05|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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