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Bowl: C.12-1979

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Current Location: Gallery 33

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

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Description

Fritware painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze

Fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a tall, cylindrical foot ring.
Interior: on the body a frieze of almond shaped medallions, containing rosettes and spiralling tadpole leaves reserved in turquoise, and flower pots containing symmetrical flower arrangements. On the base a central rosette with radiating tadpole leaves painted in a spiral and reserved in blue.
Exterior: on the body, painted in blue, a frieze of large flowers, spiralling stems and leaves is painted above a band of angular, slanted leaves. On the foot stylised meandering scrollwork is reserved in blue. The base is glazed except for the rim of the foot ring.

Notes

History note: Formerly on loan, now given in memory, from the collection of Lt. Col. The Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C.

Legal notes

Given anonymously

Measurements and weight

Height: 15 cm
Weight: 1234 g
Width: 27.8 cm

Relative size of this object

27.8 cm15 cm What does this represent?

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Place(s) associated

  • Iznik ⪼ Anatolia ⪼ Turkey

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given anonymously (1905-06-01) by Boscawen, M.T., Lt Col the Hon, DSO, MC

Dating

Early 16th Century
Circa 1530 CE - Circa 1535 CE

Note

Potter’s style

School or Style

Ottoman

Components of the work

Base Diameter 11 cm
Rim Diameter 27.8 cm

Materials used in production

blue (cobalt), turquoise Pigment
colourless, except for the rim of the foot ring Glaze
Fritware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze
Painting underglaze
Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: circular paper label

  • Text: Boscawen Loan, 1946 (black), 22 (red)
  • Location: Inside foot ring
  • Method of creation: Hand written
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.12-1979
Primary reference Number: 71601

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 4 December 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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