Current Location: In storage
Titles
Fragment of a dish
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Unidentified Spanish pottery
(Perhaps)
Entities
Categories
Description
Five-sided concave fragment of a dish with part of the footring on the underside. Buff earthenware, the reverse unglazed, the front tin-glazed and painted in copper-green and manganese-brown. Part of an oval motif cross-hatched in green surrounded by two brown lines; a curved line with four short brown lines over it; a V-shaped brown line, and the ends of four brown lines.
Notes
History note: From a dig at Kom el Dik, Alexandria. Found by Professor A. J. B. Wace
Legal notes
Exchanged, from Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 8.3 cm
Length: 11.8 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Exchanged
(1948-10)
by
Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
Dating
14th Century
1300
CE
-
1399
CE
Note
Accessioned as 'Orvieto type' but definitely not from Orvieto in Umbria. The Spanish attribution seems possible on the basis of the water to C.18.17A-1948 attributed to Catalonia, Manresa or elsewhere. This would not be incompatible with a find site in Egypt, but it might also be North African.
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( copper-green and manganese-brown)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.18.17F-1948
Primary reference Number: 137752
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 10 October 2016
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
