IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75425 accession number: C.527-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 October 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in black slip, carved under a dull, crazed and lightly pitted turquoise glaze. Shape: inverted pear shaped jar with everted rim, cylindrical neck and a low foot ring Exterior: the rim is coated in a black slip; while on the neck the black slip is carved to form a repeating frieze of curved lozenges and half lozenges with central dots. On the shoulder, a frieze of Arabic script (kufic) is interspersed with scrolling foliage. The body is covered with vertical lines alternating in thickness. The glaze runs unevenly over the very lowest sections of the body, not always covering the black underlying slip. Interior: The turquoise glaze continues over the interior but only thinly coats the surface below the neck. object type: frirware with carved black slip under a turquoise glaze title: jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Henry Scipio Reitlinger creditline: H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75425 TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in black slip, carved under a dull crazed and lightly pitted turquoise glaze throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1150 - 1200 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1200 culture: 12th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.4 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1349 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.1 CITATIONS -------- Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection Persian Silhouette Ware and Development of Underglaze Painting Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution Ceramics from Islamic Lands Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East Raqqa Revisited, Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_527_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_527_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_527_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_527_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_527_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_527_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_527_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_527_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_527_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels