Current Location: Gallery 33
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue under a turquoise glaze
Fritware painted in blue under a turquoise crackled glaze
Shape: bi-conical bowl with an everted, ‘hammer head’ rim descends via a carination onto a narrow foot ring
Interior: the rim is dashed with lines and crescents. On the body, delineated by a pair of horizontal lines, two birds, both with heads turned at an angle to their bodies strut either side of a tree with feathery leaves. Three scar marks on the interior indicate the use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln. Glaze has run on the neck, forming droplets at one point indicating that the vessel was fired upside down.
Exterior: pairs of vertical lines run from the rim onto the lower body. Glaze terminates on the lower body.
Notes
History note: Formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet (Paris)
Legal notes
Oscar Raphael bequest, 1941, received, 1946
Measurements and weight
Height: 11.6 cm
Weight: 1669 g
Width: 29.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1946)
by
Raphael, Oscar C.
Dating
14th Century-15th Century, Early
Circa
1300
CE
-
Circa
1425
CE
Note
Shape and interior decoration are Timurid but the exterior decoration could point to an earlier date.
School or Style
Timurid
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( turquoise, crackled)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( turquoise, crackled)
Rim
Diameter 29.7 cm
Base
Diameter 9.7 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue under a turquoise crackled glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edges
- Text: 'INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PERSIAN ART , LONDON, 1931' (printed around the edge), 'R33/C.D. 38-1941' (hand written in black)
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: small circular label
- Text: '33'
- Location: Exterior base
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge
- Text: blue border (printed), ‘Doucet of Paris’ (hand written in black)
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Printed, hand written
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: OC.147-1946
Primary reference Number: 77576
Oscar Raphael: 33
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 1 December 2020
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
