IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75944 accession number: C.73-1935 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, wheel thrown and moulded, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze. Shape: spout is moulded into the form of a cock’s head (but without holes, necessitating pouring from rim) with strap handle, symbolising tail feathers, attached on the upper body and spout. Body is a bulbous pear shape sitting on a low foot ring. Interior: rim and neck are painted in blue and black imitating a cock’s head including head feathers, mouth and eyes. On the body three horizontal friezes, comprising either blue or black vertical lines, or black dots, or black pseudo-calligraphy, frame a large central frieze of vertical panels. The panels are separated by blue or turquoise lines and contain black dots or a blue or black cable pattern on a hatched ground. The handle is painted with a doted ‘S’ pattern framed by blue lines. Over all the surface blue and turquoise pigment has run into the surrounding glaze which covers the surface to the lower body, running unevenly onto the foot ring. Interior: a black dentillated pattern is painted on the rim. Visible surface is coated with glaze. object type: fritware painted in three colours under a transparent white glaze title: ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank Brangwyn Collection creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75944 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1200 - 1399 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1399 culture: 13th Century-14th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.2 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1183 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection La Céramique Islamique Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution Ceramics from Islamic Lands --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_C_73_1935_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_C_73_1935_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_C_73_1935_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_C_73_1935_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_C_73_1935_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_C_73_1935_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_C_73_1935_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/C_73_1935_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_C_73_1935_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels