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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted in lustre and coloured with blue on the base.
Shape: conical bowl with slightly convex body, sits on a low foot ring.
Interior: radiating from a central triangle, with a chequer board pattern, three arabesques are painted on the body where they alternate with medallions containing seated figures.
Exterior: rim is painted with a lustre band above a frieze of pseudo-calligraphy. White glaze covers the body and runs unevenly onto the foot ring, where it is splashed with blue. A band of blue pigment is painted on the rim of the foot ring and blue glaze covers the underside.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 7 cm
Weight: 197 g
Width: 17.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Exterior Foot Ring
composed of
glaze
( blue pigment is painted on the rim of the foot ring and glaze is coloured blue on the underside)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 17.5 cm
Base
Diameter 6.7 cm
lustre (except exterior foot ring)
Oxide colours
Fritware
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted in lustre and coloured with blue on the base
Painting overglaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.176-1935
Primary reference Number: 72578
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.102
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/72578 Accessed: 2024-11-05 13:40:12
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72578
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 13:40:12|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-72578
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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