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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue, turquoise, brown, black, red and gilded
Fritware, probably wheel thrown, with a white opaque crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in brown, black, red and leaf gilded.
Shape: round cut sherd entire foot ring
Interior: partial picture of two confronted mounted horses either side of a tree with an animal clinging to the trunk. Only the heads of the horses, part of the body of the rider and the lower branches of the tree are visible. The figures, animals and tree trunk are all outlined in black with black features. One horse is painted black and the other blue, while the animal at the tree trunk is brown. The tree trunk is outlined in black and coloured turquoise while the branches are dotted with blue, black and red dots.
Exterior: undecorated except for a white glaze even on underside of foot ring, thinner than on interior of fragment.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 2.3 cm
Weight: 76 g
Width: 8.2 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
Late 12th or early 13th century
Circa
1180
-
1219
Interior
composed of
gold leaf
( gilding on selected areas)
pigment
( turquoise, blue (in-glaze) red, black, brown (over-glaze))
glaze
( white, slightly crazed)
Exterior
composed of
glazing (coating)
( white, slightly crazed, even on underside of foot ring, thinner than on interior of fragment)
Base
Diameter 7.3 cm
Throwing : Fritware, probably wheel thrown, with a white opaque crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in brown, black, red and leaf gilded
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: Hand written in black ink directly onto vessel surface, partially obscured by labels
Inscription present: hand written in pencil directly onto vessel surface, partially obscured by labels
Accession number: C.147-1935
Primary reference Number: 72055
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.107
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 (2022) "Fragment" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72055 Accessed: 2022-12-08 21:22:00
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