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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted under or over the glaze with blue and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted under or over the glaze with blue and lustre.
Shape: hemispherical bowl, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: rim is painted with a lustre band. On the body a frieze of horizontal bands of blue and lustre, topped with vertical dashes, alternate with dotted lustre stars. On the base a bird is reserved in lustre, a lustre scroll is painted on the right hand side.
Exterior: lustre band continues on the rim, on the upper body an inscription is painted in lustre. Glaze covers the lower body unevenly, running onto the foot ring in places.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 4.8 cm
Weight: 79 g
Width: 10.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Monumental style
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, covers the lower body unevenly, running onto the foot ring in places)
Rim
Diameter 10.2 cm
Base
Diameter 4 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted under or over the glaze with blue and lustre
Inscription present: painted on the glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.116-1935
Primary reference Number: 71438
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.126
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/71438 Accessed: 2024-12-23 03:10:50
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71438
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-23 03:10:50|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-71438
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