IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72055 accession number: C.147-1935 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, probably wheel thrown, with a white opaque crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in brown, black, red and leaf gilded. Shape: round cut sherd entire foot ring Interior: partial picture of two confronted mounted horses either side of a tree with an animal clinging to the trunk. Only the heads of the horses, part of the body of the rider and the lower branches of the tree are visible. The figures, animals and tree trunk are all outlined in black with black features. One horse is painted black and the other blue, while the animal at the tree trunk is brown. The tree trunk is outlined in black and coloured turquoise while the branches are dotted with blue, black and red dots. Exterior: undecorated except for a white glaze even on underside of foot ring, thinner than on interior of fragment. object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue, turquoise, brown, black, red and gilded title: fragment NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank Brangwyn Collection creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72055 PEOPLE ------------------- horsemen SUBJECTS ------------------- tree tree TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, probably wheel thrown, with a white opaque crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in brown, black, red and leaf gilded throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1180 - 1219 creation date earliest: 1180 creation date latest: 1219 culture: 12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 76 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.2 CITATIONS -------- Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection Islamic ceramics Ceramics from Islamic Lands --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/C_147_1935_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_C_147_1935_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/C_147_1935_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_C_147_1935_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/C_147_1935_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_C_147_1935_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/C_147_1935_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_C_147_1935_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels