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Potter: Ἁli Mohammed Isfahani (Possibly, or one of his follow)
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.
Given by Mr Phillip McClean
Height: 3.3 cm
Weight: 348 g
Width: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1996) by McClean, Philip
19th Century, Late#
Circa
1887
CE
-
Circa
1899
CE
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
Moulding : Fritware, probably mould made, painted in black, blue, yellow, pink and turquoise under a slightly pitted and cracked colourless or white glaze
Accession number: C.23-1996
Primary reference Number: 73355
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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