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Description: | Artist: Unknown, pottery; Date(s): circa 1200 - circa 1300; Classification(s): fritware (stonepaste), tile, glazing (coating), pinkish buff earthenware, the upper surface covered with an opaque white glaze, painted with touches of turquoise, blue and lustre which has fired yellowish-brown; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1934-02-27, Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [C.24-1934]
Description: Pinkish-buff fritware, the upper surface covered with an opaque white glaze, painted inglaze touches of turquoise, blue and overglaze in lustre which has fired yellowish-brown. In the middle, a rabbit, surrounded by four leaves and eight birds against a background of small swirls and foliage, reserved on a lustre ground; the leaves outlined in blue and the rabbbit and birds touched with turquoise. Round the edge, a nashki inscription in lustre between blue lines. | 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: | fritware (stonepaste) Unknown tile | Temporal: | name=13th Century; start=1200; end=1300 | 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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