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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1200 - circa 1400; Classification(s): earthenware, tile, painting overglaze, buff earthenware, the upper surface covered with a thick, glassy, semi-opaque white glaze, painted in blue and brown lustre; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.C.111-1912]
Description: Buff earthenware, the upper surface covered with a thick, glassy, semi-opaque white glaze, painted in blue and brown lustre. In the middle, within a star-shaped frame, a stylised plant with trefoil leaves. Round the edge, a nashki inscription from Surah 97 of the Holy Quran. The star-shaped frame and the outer edge are blue. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown tile earthenware | Temporal: | name=13th-14th Century; start=1200; end=1400 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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