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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, moulded and incised, coated in a white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown with a moulded neck and incised body, coated in a white glaze
Shape: cylindrical body, tapering towards a low foot ring at the base and ascending via a carination to a moulded, collared neck with a protruding spout. A strap handle with thumb rest is applied to the neck and body.
Exterior: poorly defined moulded decoration on the neck. Lightly incised scrolling on the shoulder, while on the upper body similar scrolling lines are interspersed with scalloped and curved lines. Glaze terminates unevenly on the foot ring.
Interior: undecorated except for surface glaze.
History note: Found at Gurgan
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Height: 27.3 cm
Weight: 553 g
Width: 12 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: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
Late 12th or early 13th century
Circa
1150
CE
-
Circa
1258
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, terminating unevenly on the foot ring.)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white)
Base
Diameter 7.6 cm
Rim
Diameter 8.5 cm
Handle
Moulding : Fritware, wheel thrown with a moulded neck and incised body, coated in a white glaze
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label printed in white
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label printed in black
Inscription present: Oval cream paper label printed in black
Accession number: C.108-2019
Primary reference Number: 71054
2
Previous ID: AL.2-1983
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) "Ewer" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71054 Accessed: 2023-03-29 11:27:47
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|title=Ewer
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-29 11:27:47|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: OC.33 & A-1946
Accession Number: E.210.1954
Accession Number: C.738-2016
Accession Number: JL.33-1984
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