IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72651 accession number: C.18.2-1948 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 21 September 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragments with reddish body tones, coated with cream slips and incised under yellow glazes, enhanced with green, light brown, and dark brown pigments A: Shape: base, short foot ring, and part of body wall of a hemispherical bowl Interior: over a pinkish slip, an incised circle around the base encloses a blazon design of a pair of polo sticks painted with light brown, above a double incised line painted green, the lower body undecorated apart from two isolated areas of incised calligraphy, and the whole covered in a coating of yellow glaze Exterior: yellow glaze over a thin layer of pinkish slip, also coating the outside and underside of the foot ring, undecorated B: Shape: fragment of carinated lower body of a straight-sided vessel Interior: yellow glaze applied over a cream slip, on the lower body a double incised line forms a circular medallion showing the lower part of a fleur de lys type motif on a densely spiralling scribbled ground Exterior: yellow glaze applied thinly over a thin pinkish slip D: Shape: base and section of carinated lower body standing on a straight-sided foot ring Interior: under a yellow glaze, an interweaving six-pointed star pattern is incised through cream slip over the curving base, the interstices enhanced with light brown, dark brown and green pigments, and the whole enclosed by a double line encircling the base Exterior: yellow glaze over a pinkish slip, undecorated E Shape: fragment of an upper body and invertedrim Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, under the rim which is enhanced by a band of brown pigment, a band of s-shaped motifs alternately enhanced with dark brown glaze and thicker layer of slip creating a relief effect and paler tone under the glaze is enclosed by two incised double lines, above an area of incised calligraphy decorated with dots between the uprights, the body of the letters and dots enhanced with extra slip Exterior: yellow glaze over cream slip, decorated with a band of calligraphy infilled with light brown pigment with incised dots around the letters enhanced with extra slip to produce a paler colour and relief effect. Unnumbered: Shape: base and part of lower body standing on a short, flaring foot ring Interior: under a yellow glaze applied over a cream slip, an incised eight-pointed rosette on the base is surrounded by an interwoven basket pattern, the whole over a ground of densely scribbled spirals Exterior: yellow glaze with some splashes of dark brown pigment over a cream slip, running under the foot ring also. object type: Five earthenware fragments, all incised through cream slips under yellow glazes, enhanced with green, light brown, and dark brown pigments title: sherd NOTES ----- type: history note value: From Farouk I University Alexandria LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72651 TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1250 - 1399 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1399 culture: 13th Century, Late-14th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Renaissance of Islam. Art of the Mamluks Ceramics from Islamic Lands Ceramic Evidence for Political Transformations in Early Mamluk Egypt Saracenic Heraldry Archaeological Excavations at Kom-el-Dik. A Preliminary Report on the Medieval Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_18_2_1948.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_C_18_2_1948.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_18_2_1948.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_C_18_2_1948.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels