Fragment of a dish
Maker:
Unknown
Unidentified Spanish pottery
(Perhaps)
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.
History note: From a dig at Kom el Dik, Alexandria. Found by Professor A. J. B. Wace
Exchanged, from Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
Diameter: 8.3 cm
Length: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1948-10) by Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
14th Century
1300
CE
-
1399
CE
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.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( copper-green and manganese-brown)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.18.17F-1948
Primary reference Number: 137752
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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