Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, potter, North Africa, Egypt, Fustat
Collection:
Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Category:
earthenware
Name(s):
fragment
Islamic pottery; category
sgraffito
Date:
circa 1300 — circa 1400
School/Style:
Mamluk
Period:
14th Century
Description:
Earthenware fragment, wheel thrown, coated in a cream slip. Incised and covered with a green glaze enhanced with brown pigment
Find Spot:
Fustat, Egypt
Technique(s):
slip coating
incising
glazing
throwing; wheel
Material(s):
earthenware
slip
glaze
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 6.2, cm
width, whole, 14.5, cm
diameter, base, 7.6, cm
weight, whole, 355, 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. sgraffito fragments see Cat. R.21 (pp. 413-4)
Walker, Bethany J.. Ceramic Evidence for Political Transformations in Early Mamluk Egypt.
Source Title: Mamluk Studies Review 8 1 (2004) : 1-114
Cf. similar shape to Fig. 11b (Phase II). Ref.
Part Of:
Accession:
Object Number: C.4.24-1919
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 74826; input: 2002-11-20; modified: 2015-10-07)
Permanent
Identifier:
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