IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77606 accession number: OC.170-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, wheel thrown body and moulded handles and spout, coated in an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze; decorated with blue and turquoise in-glaze painting, black and red overglaze painting and gilding. Shape: bulbous body with a cylindrical neck and plain rim, sitting on a low foot ring. Opposing cheetah handles and angular spouts are attached to the upper body. Exterior: the rim is painted with a blue dentilated pattern. On the upper body, a frieze of mounted horsemen and two standing figures each separated by feather-like foliage, are identically dressed in hats, tunics, and leggings, occasionally wearing golf leaf arm bands. This frieze is delineated above and below by narrow bands of Arabic script, possibly pseudo epigraphic. On the lower body, a frieze of alternately transposed triangular floral garlands is painted. All these friezes are outlined in black and coloured with blue, turquoise, red and black. Two lion shaped handles, with red heads and bodies decorated with blue stripes and turquoise and red dots, are joined to the upper body. White glaze runs unevenly over the lower body and in places onto the foot ring. Interior: blue paint continues on the rim, while on the neck black Arabic script (cursive) is painted. Remainder is undecorated except for a covering of white glaze. object type: fritware painted in five colours in or on a white glaze title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Oscar Raphael Bequest LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Oscar Raphael creditline: Oscar Raphel Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77606 PEOPLE ------------------- horsemen TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, wheel thrown body and moulded handles and spout, coated in an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze; decorated with blue and turquoise in-glaze painting, black and red overglaze painting and gilding throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1180 - 1219 creation date earliest: 1180 creation date latest: 1219 culture: 12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 dimension: Weight units: g value: 708 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: International Exhibition of Persian Art title: Court and Cosmos. The Great Age of the Seljuqs CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the international exhibition of Persian art Islamic Pottery, A comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection Freer Gallery of Art Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition. III Ceramics from the World of Islam La Céramique Islamique Iranian Stone-Paste Pottery of the Saljuq Period. Types and Distribution Advances in Polychrome Ceramics in the Islamic World of the 12th Century AD Ceramics from Islamic Lands --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/OC_170_1946_1_201504_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 858 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_OC_170_1946_1_201504_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 419 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/OC_170_1946_1_201504_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 858 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_OC_170_1946_1_201504_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 209 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/OC_170_1946_2_201504_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 870 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid 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