Fragment of a dish
Maker:
Unknown
Production:
Unidentified Catalonian pottery
Four-sided, slightly concave fragment of a dish with one side of rim. Pinkish-buff earthenware, the reverse unglazed, the front tin-glazed and painted in manganese-brown and copper-green. A pointed motif with a green and a brown curved line on either side of the tip, and on the left part of four concentric squarish-circles in brown, and a green L-shaped line. Round the rim there is a broad green line between two 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
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1948-10) by Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
14th Century
1300
CE
-
1399
CE
This fragment was accessioned as 'Orvieto type' but is definitely not from Orvieto in Umbria. It appears to be the same type as fragmemnt C.18.17A which has a design similar to one on a bowl in the Museum of Majorca, attributed to Manresa in Catalonia. The find place, however, suggests that it might be North African.
Decoratin
composed of
high-temperature colour
( green from copper and brown from manganese)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Decoration
pinkish-buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.18.17G-1948
Primary reference Number: 137753
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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