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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, carved under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel-thrown, carved under a turquoise glaze
Shape: cylindrical jar, flaring slightly towards a carination on the shoulder and a collared neck, terminating in a bead rim. Sits on a low, wide foot ring.
Exterior: on the upper body, a kufic style inscription is carved in a horizontal band. Glaze terminates unevenly on the lower body or foot ring.
Interior: glaze covers the surface unevenly.
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: 22.6 cm
Weight: 884 g
Width: 13.4 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
12th or early 13th century
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, terminating unevenly on the lower body or foot ring)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Rim
Diameter 9 cm
Exterior Body
Throwing : Fritware, wheel-thrown, carved under a turquoise glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label printed in black
Inscription present: Oval cream paper label printed in black
Inscription present: Inscription directly onto the object surface in black
Accession number: C.55-2019
Primary reference Number: 71080
Previous ID: AL.6-1983
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) "Jar" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71080 Accessed: 2023-03-29 12:50:13
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Accession Number: E.S.14
Accession Number: E.S.13
Accession Number: E.S.15
Accession Number: E.P.267
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