Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware painted in polychrome under a transparent white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a narrow foot ring
Interior: rim is painted black under which a band of scallops are dotted with blue. On the body arabesques are painted in black and coloured with blue and turquoise, and alternate with vertical inscriptions. In the roundel a blue hare leaps amongst black feathery foliage with blue, turquoise and purple buds.
Exterior: black paint continues on the rim. On the body blue lines, imitating a petal design, radiate from the base. Glaze terminates on the lower body where it is pitted.
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: 9.2 cm
Weight: 403 g
Width: 19.3 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
13th Century, Mid-14th Century, Mid#
Circa
1260
-
Circa
1350
School or Style
Il-Khanid
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( transparent, white, terminates on the lower body where it is pitted)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, purple, turquoise and black)
glaze
( white, transparent)
Rim
Diameter 19.3 cm
Base
Diameter 6.5 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, purple, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
- Text: 79
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.104-2019
Primary reference Number: 71085
Previous ID: AL.70-1948
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 17 February 2022
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
