IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75180
accession number:	C.46-1911

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 3 January 2014

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: fritware, probably mould made, coated in a white slip and painted in two shades of blue and brown under a colourless glaze
Shape: hemispherical bowl with plain rim, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: all decoration is painted in blue. Below the rim a vegetal frieze comprises flower heads, curling leaves and scrolling stems. In the roundel a scholar figure kneels in a landscape of pagodas and vegetation.
Exterior: palmette leaves are reserved in blue and enclosed within brown lobbed medallions. Between the palmettes brown trellis work is arranged in arabesque forms. The glaze runs over the foot ring unevenly. The underside of the foot ring is glazed and marked with three blue tassels.
object type: fritware coated in a white slip painted in blue and brown under a colourless glaze
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, probably part of lot 133, sold for 20 guineas with another vessel


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75180

PEOPLE
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scholar




TECHNIQUES
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fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in a white slip and painted in two shades of blue under a colourless glaze
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)
TECHNIQUES
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slip-coating

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1650 - 1699
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1699
culture:	17th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.7

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 3082

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 39.1



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Persian and Arab Art
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of Specimens Illustrative of Persian and Arab Art
The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq.
Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Third Annual Report
The Scholar, the Drinker and the Ceramic Pot-painter
Safavid Potters' Marks and the Question of Provenance
Persia and China. Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738
The Safavid Ceramic Industry at Kirman
Ceramics from Islamic Lands
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