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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue, turquoise and lustre
Fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in lustre
Shape: eight pointed star shaped tile with bevelled edges
Upper surface: painted around the edge with a blue line. In the centre of the tile, two confronted birds are reserved on a lustred ground containing dots and palmettes. The birds are separated by a blue and turquoise cypress tree growing from a blue mound that overlies a fish, which is also reserved in lustre. Glaze runs over the edges unevenly\par
Lower surface: undecorated.
History note: From the collection of the late Henry Wallis. On the back there is a rectangular label printed in black 'LENT BY/' stamped in purple ' . WALLIS ESQ'/ printed in black 'No.' written in faded black ? ink '116'.
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Depth: 0.9 cm
Height: 11.8 cm
Weight: 132 g
Width: 11.7 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1934-02-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Second half of 13th century
Circa
1350
CE
-
Circa
1400
CE
Upper Surface composed of oxide colours ( lustre) pigment ( turquoise, blue) glaze ( white)
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in lustre
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge
Inscription present: written in pencil directly on the object surface
Accession number: C.25-1934
Primary reference Number: 17492
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Tile" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17492 Accessed: 2023-05-30 10:22:39
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Tile
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-30 10:22:39|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-17492
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