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Potter: Unknown
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.
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: 7.4 cm
Weight: 469 g
Width: 19.6 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
Late 12th Century
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Miniature style
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
Throwing : Fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription present: painted in lustre
Inscription present: black paper rectangular label
Inscription present: white paper rectangular label
Accession number: C.81-2019
Primary reference Number: 71074
Previous ID: AL.54-1948
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71074 Accessed: 2023-03-29 12:29:32
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71074
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-29 12:29:32|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-71074
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/AL_54_1948_283_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: E.P.467
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Accession Number: E.277.1932
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