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Bowl: C.81-2019

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 33

Maker(s)

Potter: Unknown

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Description

Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in lustre

Fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with lustre.
Shape: carinated bowl with a slightly everted rim, sits on a high flaring foot ring.
Interior:On the upper body an inscription is painted in lustre and framed by lustre bands. On the body, a donkey bearing a howda, which carries a woman, is painted in lustre and in surrounded by birds in silhouette, split palmettes and dots. Glaze doesn't cover the surface completely leaving two small areas uncovered in the centre.
Exterior: linear lustre arabesques are painted in panels and framed by concentric lines of lustre. Glaze covers the surface to the foot ring, leaving the rim uncovered and a thin 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: 7.4 cm
Weight: 469 g
Width: 19.6 cm

Relative size of this object

19.6 cm7.4 cm What does this represent?

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.

Place(s) associated

  • Kashan ⪼ central Asia

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family

Dating

Late 12th Century
Circa 1170 CE - Circa 1199 CE

Note

Miniature style

School or Style

Seljuk

Components of the work

Interior composed of oxide colours ( lustre) glaze ( white, two small areas uncovered in the centre)
Exterior Body composed of oxide colours ( lustre)
Exterior composed of glaze ( white, covers the surface to the foot ring, leaving the rim uncovered and a thin coverage on the underside)
Rim Diameter 19.6 cm
Base Diameter 7.7 cm

Materials used in production

Fritware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with lustre

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: painted in lustre

  • Location: Interior rim
  • Method of creation: Hand painted
  • Type: Inscription

Inscription present: black paper rectangular label

  • Text: 60
  • Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: white paper rectangular label

  • Text: 35
  • Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.81-2019
Primary reference Number: 71074
Previous ID: AL.54-1948
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 17 February 2022 Last processed: Thursday 17 February 2022

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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