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Incised earthenware with cream slip under an amber glaze
Red-brown earthenware, wheel thrown, bowl with cream slip, incised painted decoration under an amber glaze.
Shape: Carinated bowl with bead rim, straight neck and a sharp carination descending onto a low foot ring.
Interior: A cream slip coats the interior with an incised scrolling pattern on the neck enclosed by concentric lines. On the body, a thickly incised radiating geometric design comprising squares enclosing opposing diagonal lines and pairs of vertical lines containing a criss-cross diagonal pattern. Incisions on the body are painted dark brown and radiate from two concentric lines in the base. An amber glaze covers the decoration and pools slightly in one area of the interior carination.
Exterior: A cream slip coats the exterior to a mid-point in the body with irregular patches over the remaining surface. The neck is decorated with an incised pattern of repeating circles enclosed above and below by concentric lines. As on the interior, incisions appear to be emphasised with brown paint. An amber glaze covers the decoration to the carination and in places runs over the lower vessel body
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 5.3 cm
Weight: 264 g
Width: 13.9 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
12th-13th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
1299
CE
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
glaze
( amber)
slip
( cream)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( amber)
slip
( cream)
Rim
Diameter 13.8 cm
Base
Diameter 5.7 cm
Exterior Neck
Throwing : Red-brown incised earthenware, wheel thrown, with cream slip under an amber glaze
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top and right hand edge
Inscription present: inscribed onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.178-1935
Primary reference Number: 72606
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.150
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)
"Bowl"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72606 Accessed: 2022-05-19 22:58:50
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