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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with lustre and turquoise
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with lustre and splashed with turquoise pigment.
Shape: globular body, carinated at the shoulder and lower body sitting on a foot ring base. Inverted pear shaped neck with flaring rim.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a lustre band. On the neck four friezes comprise running quadrupeds above palmette leaves and arabesques, both reserved in lustre; while patterns of lustre dots and lines cover the lower surface. On the body a central frieze of mounted horsemen, reserved in lustre medallions, are separated by sketch arabesques. Above this central frieze sphinx are reserved in lustre below further sketchy arabesques. Below the central frieze a band of irregular triangles are painted above vertical panels of dots and scrolling lines. Turquoise pigment is splashed under the glaze on the body. Glaze covers the lower body unevenly, terminating on the foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with lustre, a thin glaze covers the surface as far as is visible.
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: 31.5 cm
Weight: 980 g
Width: 18.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Miniature style
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
pigment
( splashed with turquoise under the glaze)
glaze
( white, covers the lower body unevenly, terminating on the foot ring)
Interior Rim
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white, as far as is visible but unlikely to cover whole surface)
Base
Diameter 10 cm
Rim
Diameter 4 cm
Body
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
Inscription present: Oval cream paper label
Accession number: C.105-2019
Primary reference Number: 71088
Previous ID: AL.7-1976
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71088 Accessed: 2024-12-22 15:05:56
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