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Production: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, probably mould made, painted in red slip, blue, sage green and black under colourless, slightly pitted, glaze
Shape: segmental bowl with a foliated flange rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: on the rim below a bracketed black line, a rock wave pattern is painted in blue, black and green. On the body, a polychrome floral spray incorporates flowers and saz leaves, the latter splitting two carnations.
Exterior: a bracketed black line is painted below the rim. On the body, a frieze of three blue tulips in a spray alternate with green and blue rosettes, both outlined in black. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring.
Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 7.2 cm
Weight: 1250 g
Width: 31.6 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: Given (1916-12-15) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Third quarter of 16th century
Circa
1560
-
Circa
1565
Floral style
Exterior Rim/body
composed of
pigment
( blue, green, black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red slip, blue, sage green and black)
Base
Diameter 16.7 cm
Rim
Diameter 31.6 cm
colourless, slightly pitted, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, probably mould made, painted in red slip, blue, sage green and black under colourless, slightly pitted, glaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.15-1916
Primary reference Number: 72133
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) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72133 Accessed: 2023-06-08 11:13:23
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University of Cambridge}}
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