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
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