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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted in polychrome
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white with red, blue, turquoise, grey, black and flesh tones.
Shape: bi-conical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a foot ring
Interior: the rim is painted with a dentailated pattern in grey. On the neck a floriated kufic inscription is reserved in red, turquoise and blue and separated by roundels containing a blue arabesque reserved on a red ground. The roundel on the base is enclosed by a further frieze of small medallions, containing palmettes reserved in green or grey, separated by red lozenges. On the base, contained within a scalloped roundel, a horseman wearing a red tunic is mounted on a blue stead and surrounded by scrolling palmettes, all reserved on a turquoise ground.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a turquoise concentric line. On the body, a grey lozenge pattern, dotted with red and turquoise, encloses a kufic inscription floriated with red and separated by turquoise medallions containing red stylised birds. Glaze terminates unevenly on the foot ring.
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: 9.4 cm
Weight: 379 g
Width: 19.8 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
Late 12th or early 13th century
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red, blue, turquoise, grey, black and flesh tones)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( red, turquoise, grey, black)
glaze
( white, terminates unevenly on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 19.8 cm
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white with red, grey, blue, turquoise, black and flesh tones
Inscription present: outlined in black, reserved in red, turquoise and blue, floriated kufic
Inscription present: turquoise, outlined in black
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.65-2019
Primary reference Number: 71093
Previous ID: AL.77-1948
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71093 Accessed: 2023-06-08 12:30:17
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71093
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-08 12:30:17|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-71093
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/AL_77_1948_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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