Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware coated in a turquoise glaze painted in blue and red and gilded
Buff fritware, moulded, coated in a turquoise glaze painted in the glaze in blue and over the glaze in red and blue and leaf gilding.
Shape: flaring rim on an inverted pear shaped neck sitting on a collar that descends onto a bulbous body with slight carination, all on a wide low foot ring.
Exterior: all over the body designs are outlined in red with gilding and blue dots and lines. Similar designs are painted on the neck and body, both of which incorporate horizontal calligraphic bands, framed by concentric lines, delimiting broad friezes of vertical arabesques including flower heads. Turquoise glaze runs over the lower body onto the foot ring.
Interior: on the rim further red paint and gilding are visible. Glaze covers rim and runs over the upper neck
Notes
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 31.3 cm
Weight: 1046 g
Width: 19 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Dating
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early
Circa
1180
CE
-
1219
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Components of the work
Exterior
composed of
gold leaf
( gilding on restricted areas)
pigment
( red (overglaze), blue (possibly in and over glaze))
glaze
( turquoise, runs over the lower body onto the foot ring)
Interior Rim
composed of
painting overglaze
( red)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, covers rim and runs over the upper neck)
Base
Diameter 10 cm
Rim
Diameter 3.9 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Buff fritware, moulded, coated in a turquoise glaze painted in the glaze in blue and over the glaze in red and blue and leaf gilding
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.149-1935
Primary reference Number: 72084
Old number: BP.31
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
