Unknown
(Production)
Frieze tile. Buff earthenware, the upper surface covered with a thin wash of white slip and painted in blue, turquoise, green and sealing-wax red with black outlines, under clear-glaze. An arabesque design reserved in white with details in blue and green, in a sealing-wax red ground.
Depth: 1.4 cm
Height: 18.5 cm
Length: 26.6 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
(1946)
by
Raphael, Oscar C.
Late 16th Century
1570
CE
-
1600
CE
Turkish, Isnik
Decoration composed of slip Upper Surface
buff-coloured Earthenware
Accession number: OC.179-1946
Primary reference Number: 17588
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 (2022)
"Tile"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17588 Accessed: 2022-06-28 17:20:13
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