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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome covered in a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted in turquoise, olive green, blue, brown and black under a cracked and slightly pitted, colourless glaze in which air bubbles are visible.
Shape: roughly rectangular with slightly bevelled edges on the upper and lower sides
Upper side: polychrome floral spray dominates the surface, centred on a large tulip with white dots and a rose in bud, the later is clasped with another rosette using an agrafe. Blue doted saz leaves with green central stems frame the spray, while turquoise cloud bands protrude from the upper edge.
Underside: undecorated but impressed to improve adhesion qualities and partly covered with wall plaster.
Bequeathed by Lady Courtney of Penwith
Depth: 2.8 cm
Height: 25.1 cm
Weight: 2151 g
Width: 24.5 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: Bequeathed (1929-05-29) by Lady Courtney of Penwith
Late 16th/17th Century
Circa
1560
CE
-
Circa
1699
CE
Decoration
composed of
glaze
( pitted, colourless)
Upper Surface
composed of
pigment
( turquoise, olive green, blue, brown and black)
buff Fritware
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, painted in turquoise, olive green, blue, brown and black under a cracked and slightly pitted, colourless glaze in which air bubbles are visible
Accession number: C.2-1929
Primary reference Number: 17536
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/17536 Accessed: 2023-06-10 03:37:58
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Tile
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-10 03:37:58|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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