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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a blue glaze
Pinkish fritware, probably mould made with decoration in relief, coated in a blue glaze.
Shape: cylindrical jar, tapering slightly towards a foot ring base and carinated at the shoulder. Angled cylindrical neck and bead rim.
Exterior: on the body a band of moulded decoration is dominated by floriated kufic style script. A narrow horizontal band of scrolling vegetation is just below the carination. Glaze runs over the foot ring unevenly, terminating in droplets.
Interior: glaze terminates on the neck, otherwise undecorated.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 20.6 cm
Weight: 794 g
Width: 14.3 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: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
Second half of 12th century
Circa
1150
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Exterior Glaze
composed of
glaze
( blue, running over the foot ring unevenly and terminating in droplets)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( blue, terminating on the interior of the neck)
Base
Diameter 10.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 9 cm
Exterior Body
pinkish Fritware
Moulding : Pinkish fritware, probably mould made with decoration in relief, coated in a blue glaze.
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge with a black rectangular border printed around the edge
Inscription present: hand written in pencil
Accession number: C.112-1935
Primary reference Number: 71380
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD.59
Old number: BP.53
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) "Jar" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71380 Accessed: 2023-06-09 09:03:25
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Accession Number: E.S.14
Accession Number: E.S.13
Accession Number: E.S.15
Accession Number: E.P.267
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