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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1200 - circa 1220; Classification(s): fritware (stonepaste), bottle, painting, stonepaste (frit) body, tin-glazed off-white except for the base and an irregular area above the foot, and painted in copper lustre; Acquisition: given by Ades Family, 1998-11-23, Given by the Ades family to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Fitzwilliam Museum. [C.55-1998]
Description: Fritware (stonepaste), tin-glazed off-white except for the base and an irregular area above the foot, and painted in copper lustre. The bottle stands on a slightly splayed foot. It has a globular body with a narrow cylindrical neck and a bulbous mouth from which a handle with a slight knob on the top curves outwards and downwards to the shoulder. The body is decorated round the lower part with a broad lustre band, above which is a zone of 'chain and stripe' motifs (debased vertical arabesques) with an undecorated zone above, a narrow horizontal band, a wide lustre band with a reserved cursive inscription, a kufic inscription with a background of spirals between two narrow lustre bands, and a broad lustre band with a reserved cursive inscription. On the neck there are angular motifs between areas of lustre, and there is a reserved panel of similar motifs on the back of the handle. | 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 bottle | Temporal: | name=early 13th Century; start=1200; end=1220 | 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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