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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 in blue, red-brown, turquoise, and black and gilded.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with collared neck, sits on a slightly flaring foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a blue dentillated pattern. On the neck a blue kufic inscription is surrounded by turquoise leaves and red dots. On the body a mounted horseman wearing a tunic decorated with grey and blue zig zags, a blue hat and carrying a quiver, rides a turquoise stead; features including reins on the horse and belt of the rider are gilded. Below the horse a red-brown dog with blue collar is depicted; around both animals and rider gilded lozenges and red and turquoise dots are painted.
Exterior: on the upper body, contained within two concentric red lines, a black naskhi inscription is painted. Glaze runs over the exterior body, terminating unevenly on the foot ring.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 435 g
Width: 20.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Neck
composed of
pigment
( black, red)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, red-brown, turquoise, and black)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, runs over the exterior body, terminating unevenly on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 20.6 cm
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted in blue, red-brown, turquoise, and black and gilded
Inscription present: blue kufic inscription is surrounded by turquoise leaves and red dots
Inscription present: painted in black between two red lines
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.143-1935
Primary reference Number: 71993
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.44
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 (2025) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71993 Accessed: 2025-05-20 08:19:04
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-05-20 08:19:04|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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