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frtiware with a white glaze painted in blue and lustre
buff fritware, wheel thrown and mould made, covered in a white glaze painted in blue and brown lustre
Shape: stemmed cup with conical bowl and plain rim on a stem with a collared neck and flaring foot.
Interior: rim is painted with a lustre band under which a frieze of Arabic is painted. On the body Arabic script is painted in blue surrounded by scrolling leaves painted in reserve against a background of lustre scrolls.
Exterior: all decoration is painted in lustre. Between two lustre bands painted on the rim and lower body of the cup, a wavey line and lustre scrolls are painted in a frieze that is enclosed by concentric lines. Glaze runs over the lower body of the cup and stem, terminating at a mid point below the collar.
Production Place
Raqqa (potter)
Syria (potter) (country) ()
Technique Description
buff fritware, wheel thrown and mould made, covered in a white glaze painted in blue and brown lustre
Dimensions
height: (whole): 11.5
cm
width: (whole): 15.5
cm
diameter: (rim): 15.1
cm
diameter: (base): 7
cm
weight: (whole): 343
g
Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Inscriptions/Marks
inscription Position: bowl interior Method: painting underglaze in blue pigment Content: Description: script painted free hand on surface of pot Interpretation: Language: Arabic Translation: perfect and everlasting glory
inscription Position: bowl interior Method: painting overglaze in lustre Content: Description: script painted free hand on surface of pot Interpretation: Language: Arabic
label Position: exterior base (underside of foot ring) Method: printed, typed, hand written in black ink Content: 'Lent By/No' (printed); 'Brangwyn' (typed), '175' (hand written) Description: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge Interpretation: Possibly Victoria and Albert Museum label Language: English
inscription Position: stem Method: hand written in black pencil Content: 175 Description: hand written on surface Interpretation: old object number
inscription Position: underside of foot ring Method: hand written in blue ink Content: 24600 Description: hand wirtten on surface Interpretation: old object number
Documentation
Tonghini, Cristina (1994) The fine wares of Ayyubid Syria, Oxford: Oxford University Press [page: 285-293] Source title: Cobalt and Lustre: The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. ( [comments: Cf. Raqqa lustre with blue and lustre painted decoration see numbers 303-305]
Watson, Oliver (2004) Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London: Thames & Hudson [page: 288-301] [comments: Cf. blue and lustre bowls from Raqqa see catalogue number Cat. K3 and K.4 (p. 292-3). Ref. on Syrian and Egyptian Wares in the 12th and 13th centuries]
Mason, Robert, B. (2004) Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East, California: Maznda Publications [page: 91-120] [comments: Cf. designs on Syrian pottery see SS.14 “line back” and SS.18 “calligraphy band” (figure 5.4) and see MMA.30 (figure 5.9) for similar shape. Ref. on Syrian stonepaste fabrics]
Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn (2006) Raqqa Revisited, Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria, New Haven and London: Yale University Press [comments: Cf. similar shape and decoration see MMA 16 (p. 131). Ref. on Raqqa pottery]
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