Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, coated in a blue glaze
Pinkish fritware, probably mould made with decoration in relief, coated in a blue glaze.
Shape: cylindrical jar, tapering slightly towards a foot ring base and carinated at the shoulder. Angled cylindrical neck and bead rim.
Exterior: on the body a band of moulded decoration is dominated by floriated kufic style script. A narrow horizontal band of scrolling vegetation is just below the carination. Glaze runs over the foot ring unevenly, terminating in droplets.
Interior: glaze terminates on the neck, otherwise undecorated.
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 20.6 cm
Weight: 794 g
Width: 14.3 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, second half
Circa
1150
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior Glaze
composed of
glaze
( blue, running over the foot ring unevenly and terminating in droplets)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( blue, terminating on the interior of the neck)
Base
Diameter 10.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 9 cm
Exterior Body
Materials used in production
pinkish
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Pinkish fritware, probably mould made with decoration in relief, coated in a blue glaze.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge with a black rectangular border printed around the edge
- Text: within the border “Lent by” (printed in black); below this “Brangwyn” (typed in black); below this the number ‘53’ (hand written in black ink), ‘87’ (hand written in pencil, crossed through on the right hand side).
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, typed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: hand written in pencil
- Text: possibly ‘53’
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.112-1935
Primary reference Number: 71380
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD.59
Old number: BP.53
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
