Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue, turquoise and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and turquoise and over the glaze with lustre.
Shape: biconical bowl with plain rim, sits on a foot ring
Interior: on the upper body a lustre band, enclosed by lines of blue, is inscribed with naskh script. On the body, a frieze of lustre inscriptions alternate with rosettes painted in blue and lustre. In the roundel, the surface is divided into panels by a central blue rosette and radiating half arabesques. The panels contain palmettes and half palmettes reserved on a lustred ground incised with scrolls.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a band above a naskh inscription, both in lustre. On the body, a kufic inscription is reserved in lustre and enclosed by blue bands; a further lustre band is painted above the foot ring. Glaze terminates unevenly on the foot ring; a thin clear glaze is present on the underside of the foot ring.
Notes
History note: Found at Gurgan
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: 9.8 cm
Weight: 466 g
Width: 22 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Note
Kashan style
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, terminates unevenly on the foot ring; a thin clear glaze is present on the underside of the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 22 cm
Base
Diameter 9.3 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and turquoise and over the glaze with lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: painted in lustre or incised through a lustre band
- Location: Exterior rim, interior body
- Method of creation: Painted, incised
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: painted in lustre
- Location: Exterior body
- Method of creation: Painted
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
- Text: 90
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Printed in white
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
- Text: 18
- Location: Exterior base (underside of foot ring)
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.49-2019
Primary reference Number: 71090
Previous ID: AL.74-1948
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 17 February 2022
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
