Production: Unknown
Fragment of a plate rim. Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides and painted in blue.
Approximately oblong with a curve on one side.
On the inner edge, part of a wide blue and a narrow blue band; on the rim, part of a border of stylised foliage interrupted by a 'bull's eye' motif incised with two concentreic circles; on the outer edge, a narrow and a wide blue band. On the reverse, part of a crossed rhomboid and a radiating squiggle.
History note: Purportedly purchased in Siena by F. Leverton Harris.
Depth: 0.6 cm
Length: 8.0 cm
Width: 4.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1525
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue) tin-glaze
Accession number: C.137-1927
Primary reference Number: 48139
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 (2024) "Fragment" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48139 Accessed: 2024-11-16 13:50:42
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48139
|title=Fragment
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-16 13:50:42|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-48139
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...