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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, probably mould made, painted in blue, green and red with black outlines under a colourless glaze
Shape: segmental bowl with a slightly everted rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: reserved in blue or green on the rim, a frieze of half rosettes dotted with red and paired leaves. On the body a ewer decorated with a blue and green scale pattern is surrounded by a circular floral spray. Glaze contains impurities which are evident erupting on the surface in places.
Exterior: on the body a frieze of stylised blue rosettes and green leaves. Surface is glazed except for an irregular concentric band from the exterior foot ring to the outermost section of the base.
History note: Fentons, Oxford Street, London from whom purchased for £7.0s. 0d. in October 1903 b6 Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.4 cm
Weight: 907 g
Width: 29.1 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: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second half of 17th century
Circa
1650
-
Circa
1675
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, green and red with black)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, green, black)
Base
Diameter 15.7 cm
Rim
Diameter 29.1 cm
colourless, covers surface except for an irregular concentric band from the exterior foot ring to the outermost section of the base
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, probably mould made, painted in blue, green and red with black outlines under a colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.1779-1928
Primary reference Number: 72600
Old object number: 1987
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) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72600 Accessed: 2022-10-06 02:22:24
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Accession Number: GR.P.94
Accession Number: E.S.6
Accession Number: E.62.1898
Accession Number: C.23-2017
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