IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75945 accession number: C.64-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 17 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and over the glaze with lustre. Shape: bi-conical bowl with plain rim, sits on a foot ring Interior: on the upper body a lustre band, enclosed by lines of blue is inscribed with naskh script. On the body, a frieze of lustre inscriptions alternate with tear drop cartouche, which are outlined in blue and contain a central turquoise palmette leaf reserved on a lustre ground incised with scrolls. In the roundel, reserved on a lustred ground incised with scrolls, an arabesque is painted in blue and surrounded by half palmettes. Exterior: on the body, kufic script, reserved on a lustre ground splashed with blue is painted above a lustre band. Glaze terminates unevenly on the foot ring; a thin coverage of clear glaze is present on the underside of the foot ring. object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found at Gurgan LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ades family collection creditline: Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75945 TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and over the glaze with lustre throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1200 - 1220 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1220 culture: 13th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.5 dimension: Weight units: g value: 474 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD title: The Gurgan Finds CITATIONS -------- Islamic Pottery 800-1400 AD. An Exhibition arranged by the Islamic Art Circle and held at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1 October to 30 November The Gurgan Finds: A Loan Exhibition Of Islamic Pottery Of The Seljuq Period From The Raymond Ades Family Collection Persian Lustre Ware Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution ---