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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue and black under a white glaze
Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with an everted, angled rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a black band and on the lip a frieze of pseudo epigraphy is separated by pairs of blue vertical lines. On the body blue lines, divided by panels of dots or scrolls, radiate from the roundel which contains a star shaped rosette.
Exterior: alternating pairs of black or blue lines radiate towards the rim. Glaze covers the lower body unevenly, in some cases running onto the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 930 g
Width: 28.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1260
-
Circa
1350
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( transparent, white, covers the lower body unevenly, in some areas running onto the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( transparent, white)
Rim
Diameter 28.5 cm
Base
Diameter 9.4 cm
Throwing : Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: written directly onto the vessel surface
Accession number: C.107-1935
Primary reference Number: 71269
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.80
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/71269 Accessed: 2024-12-19 00:11:34
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-19 00:11:34|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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