Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Ἁli Mohammed Isfahani
(Possibly, or one of his follow)
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware painted in four colours under a colourless glaze, white on exterior
Fritware, probably mould made, painted in black, blue, yellow, pink and turquoise under a slightly pitted and cracked colourless glaze coloured white on the exterior.
Shape:wide flange rim descends via a carination onto a shallow convex body sitting on a low foot ring
Interior : the rim is painted with a blue line above a split leaf palmette border reserved in black. On the body, reserved in blue, three figures are outlined in black wearing long robes with floral patterns in yellow, pink or turquoise. The central female figure wears a hijab, while the flanking male figures wear turbans; one of them plays a lute. Painted in the background, rocky outcrops some with floral sprays. A scar mark on the rim indicates contact with another object in the kiln.
Exterior: undecorated except for a white glaze, this covers the surface unevenly except for the rim of the foot ring.
Legal notes
Given by Mr Phillip McClean
Measurements and weight
Height: 3.3 cm
Weight: 348 g
Width: 20.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1996)
by
McClean, Philip
Dating
19th Century, Late
Circa
1887
CE
-
Circa
1899
CE
School or Style
Qajar (1779-1924)
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise, yellow, pink, black)
glaze
( colourless, slightly pitted and cracked)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, covers the surface unevenly except for the rim of the foot ring)
Base
Diameter 11 cm
Rim
Diameter 20.5 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Fritware, probably mould made, painted in black, blue, yellow, pink and turquoise under a slightly pitted and cracked colourless or white glaze
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.23-1996
Primary reference Number: 73355
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
