IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71074
accession number:	C.81-2019

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 14 February 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted in lustre
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Found at Gurgan


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Ades family collection
creditline: Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71074





TECHNIQUES
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fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with lustre
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1170 - 1199
creation date earliest:	1170
creation date latest:	1199
culture:	12th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.4

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 469

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 19.6



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Exposition d'Art Musulman
title:	Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD
title:	The Gurgan Finds
CITATIONS
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Exposition d'Art Musulman
Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD. An Exhibition arranged by the Islamic Art Circle and held at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1 October to 30 November
Islamic Pottery from Iran
Tin-glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World
The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection
Masterpieces of Western Ceramic Art, Vol. IV, Islamic Pottery
Persian Lustre Ware
Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection
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