Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
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: 6.4 cm
Weight: 213 g
Width: 16 cm
Place(s) associated
Find spot
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Note
Monumental style
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
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
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: Arabic script
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
- Text: ‘107’
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.63-2019
Primary reference Number: 71069
Previous ID: AL.47-1948
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 17 February 2022
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
