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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in polychrome and gilded
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with dark red, blue, turquoise, black and gilded.
Shape:carinated bowl with collared neck, sits on a slightly flaring foot ring base.
Interior: on the neck a kufic inscription is painted in blue and surrounded by turquoise leaves and red dots. On the body two mounted horsemen, wearing headdresses and tunics with gilding, are confronted either side of a cypress tree surrounded by leafy fronds dotes with blue and red. Above and below the horsemen pairs polychrome birds are painted.
Exterior: on the upper body a cursive inscription is painted in black. Glaze covers the surface unevenly, terminating unevenly on the foot ring.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 7.4 cm
Weight: 242 g
Width: 16.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( white, terminating unevenly on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
gold leaf
( gilding in small areas)
pigment
( red, blue, turquoise, black)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 16.8 cm
Base
Diameter 7.2 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with dark red, blue, turquoise, black and gilded
Inscription present: floriated blue kufic script, with turquoise leaves and red dots
Inscription present: painted in black, naskhi script
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: hand written directly onto object surface
Accession number: C.141-1935
Primary reference Number: 71947
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.156
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71947 Accessed: 2024-12-22 15:51:38
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