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Maker: Unknown (Uncertain)
Shallow bowl. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall with blue smudges on the reverse. Painted in dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white.
Circular with shallow gently curved sides.
A bust of a young woman facing front, her head inclined to her left and her eyes cast downwards to her left. Over her blonde hair she wears a turban-like cap which is decorated with orange trophies and has an oval green jewel at centre front. Round her neck she has a string of orange beads and a thin black necklace which disappears between her breasts. Her gown has green and orange sleeves and a dark-blue decolleté bodice with incised decoration and a white edging. Projecting on either side of her head is an elaborately coiled scroll inscribed `DIA/NORA' and decorated with formal plant motifs in dark blue. The background is blue.
History note: Unknown
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Diameter: 24.5 cm
Height: 3.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
16th Century
19th Century
Circa
1525
CE
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1540
CE
Circa
1850
CE
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1900
CE
Place of manufacture uncertain, possibly Castel Durante or another town in the Marches.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white)
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall with blue smudges on the reverse. Painted in dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white.
Inscription present: circular
Inscription present: small circular label
Accession number: C.111-1927
Primary reference Number: 71331
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71331 Accessed: 2024-11-05 19:53:17
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