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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in three colours under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted in blue, green and black under a colourless glaze.
Forms part of a panel comprising twenty three tiles; one of an upper row of three roughly square tiles.
Upper surface: Tiles on the top row are all painted with a frieze of arcading toped with palmettes, outlined in black and containing split leaf arabesques that are reserved in blue and highlighted with green. This initial row may have been taken from a different context to the remaining rows.
Lower surface: undecorated except for splashes of glaze and areas of plaster
History note: William Morris; Morris & Co.
Given by The Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Depth: 2 cm
Height: 19.2 cm
Weight: 1134 g
Width: 19 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 (1928-06-04) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Late 16th Century
Circa
1574
CE
-
Circa
1599
CE
Syrian, Damascus
Upper Surface composed of pigment ( blue and green with black outlines) glaze ( colourless)
Moulding : Pale buff frit body painted in blue, green and turquoise-blue, outlined in black, under a clear glaze
Accession number: C.4C-1928
Primary reference Number: 28891
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/28891 Accessed: 2023-06-02 07:39:47
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