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Maker:
Unknown; potter
Collection:
Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Category:
fritware (stonepaste)
Name(s):
fragment
Islamic pottery; category
lustre ware
Date:
circa 1000 — circa 1099
School/Style:
Fatimid
Period:
12th Century
Description:
fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a turquoise glaze painted with lustre
Production
Place:
North Africa, Egypt, Fustat
Find Spot:
Fustat, Egypt
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 10.4, cm
width, whole, 9.3, cm
diameter, rim, 16, cm
weight, whole, 96, g
Acquisition:
given; 1919; The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Acquisition Credit:
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Documentation:
Watson, Oliver. 2004. Ceramics from Islamic Lands.London: Thames & Hudson
Cf. similar sherd with turquoise glaze and lustre decoration see Cat.Ja.10. Ref. on Fatimid lustre (pp. 272-283)
Philon, Helen. 1980. Early Islamic Ceramics: Ninth to Late Twelfth Centuries (Benaki Museum, Athens).London: Islamic Art Publications SA
Cf. similar sherd with turquoise glaze and lustre decoration see Plate XXVII (p. 239)
Accession:
Object Number: C.4.41-1919
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 74862; input: 2002-11-20; modified: 2012-10-05)
Permanent
Identifier:
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