Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted in red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted in red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black.
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 grey. On the body a frieze of tear-drop medallions containing split palmettes reserved in turquoise alternate with arabesques reserved in grey and blue. 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. Within the roundel, mounted on a blue horse, a rider wears a red and green robe and headdress; all encircled by a frond with red blue and turquoise leaves.
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.
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: 9.9 cm
Weight: 397 g
Width: 20.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( grey, red, turquoise, black)
glaze
( white, terminates unevenly on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 20.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted in red, grey, blue, turquoise, flesh tones and black
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: floriated kufic inscription outlined in black and reserved in red, turquoise and grey
- Location: Interior neck
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Label
Inscription present: painted in turquoise and outlined in black, floriated with red
- Location: Exterior body
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Label
Inscription present: white rectangular paper label
- Text: 106
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: black rectangular paper label
- Text: 94
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Printed in white
- Type: Label
Inscription present: oval paper label
- Text: 'ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCY. EXHIBN / 19…' (printed in black), ’36’ and ‘50’ (after the printed 19) (hand written in black)
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed and hand written in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.84-2019
Primary reference Number: 71094
Previous ID: AL.78-1948
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 25 June 2025
Last processed: Wednesday 25 June 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
