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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with slip decoration coated in white glaze painted in grey, red and turquoise and gilded
Fritware, wheel thrown, with piped slip designs, coated in an opaque white glaze painted in the glaze in bluish grey and turquoise and over the glaze in red and leaf gilded.
Shape: finely potted with a bulbous pear shaped body and plain rim on a low foot ring; a strap handle is attached to the rim and a mid-point on the body.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a concentric band of bluish grey. On the neck, a guilloche pattern is painted in lustre on areas of raised slip which are outlined in red. On the body, a complex pattern of arabesques comprising greyish blue palmettes and gold tendrils, on raised areas of slip, both outlined in red. On the lower body, small birds are painted in lustre on raised areas of slip also outlined in red. The glaze runs unevenly over the foot ring where it is coloured turquoise.
Interior: bluish grey band on the rim continues on interior, along with the opaque white glaze on the body and the turquoise colouring on the base.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 10 cm
Weight: 289 g
Width: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1180
-
1219
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blueish grey (in glaze), red (over glaze))
glaze
( cream, crazed)
gold leaf
( gilding on small areas)
slip
( piped)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( cream, crazed)
Base
Diameter 5.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 7 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, with piped slip designs, coated in an opaque white glaze painted in the glaze in bluish grey and over the glaze in red and leaf gilded
Inscription present: on vessel surface
Accession number: C.130-1935
Primary reference Number: 71761
Old object number: 154/104
Old number: BP.154
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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