Fragment of a dish: C.18.17A-1948

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Fragment of a dish

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown (Perhaps)
Production: Unidentified Catalonian pottery (Perhaps)

Entities

Sherd
dish fragment

Categories

Tin-glazed earthenware

Description

Five-sided fragment, one side of which is the rim of the dish. Pinkish-buff earhenware, the reverse unglazed, the front tin-glazed and painted in copper-green and manganese-brown. A pointed motifs, and on the left, a cone-shaped motif filled with green cross-hatching. Round the rim is a wide green line flanked by manganese-brown lines.

Notes

History note: Excavated at Kom el Dik, Alexandria, by Professor A.J.B. Wace

Legal notes

Exchanged, from Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt

Measurements and weight

Length: 10 cm
Width: 7.4 cm

Place(s) associated

Manresa ⪼ North Africa

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1948-10) by Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt

Dating

14th Century-15th Century#
1300 CE - 1499 CE

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( copper-green and manganese-brown)
Front composed of tin-glaze

Materials used in production

pinkish-buff Earthenware

References and bibliographic entries

Le Vert & le Brun : de Kairouan à Avignon, céramiques du Xe au XVe siècle

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.18.17A-1948
Primary reference Number: 137747
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 5 July 2016

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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