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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in turquoise, blue and lustre
Fritware, mould made, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze with lustre.
Shape: twelve sided carinated bowl, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: the rim is painted blue. On the body panels radiate from the roundel, these are defined by blue or turquoise lines and contain alternately pseudo calligraphic lustre bands above palmettes, or birds reserved in lustre or dotted lines around 'H' shapes. In the roundel a seated figure in front of a low table stacked with fruits, is reserved on a lustred ground and surrounded by dotted palmettes.
Exterior: the rim is painted blue. On the body panels contain further dotted lines around 'H' shapes. Glaze runs over the lower body unevenly, covering the top of the foot ring.
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: 9.7 cm
Width: 21.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Late
Circa
1260
CE
-
Circa
1299
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Rim
composed of
pigment
( blue)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, runs over the lower body unevenly, covering the top of the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 21.4 cm
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze with lustre
Inscription present: rectangular white label
Accession number: C.98-2019
Primary reference Number: 71070
Previous ID: AL.49-1948
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71070 Accessed: 2024-09-08 03:46:47
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71070
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-09-08 03:46:47|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-71070
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/AL_49_1948_281_29.jpg" alt="Bowl" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption> </figure> </div>
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