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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware fragment, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze
Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with reddish body tone, coated with cream slip, incised under a yellow glaze
Shape: fragment of upper body and section of beaded rim of a round-sided vessel
Interior: yellow glaze over a dirty grey slip speckled with inclusions, the upper body decorated with upper parts of incised lettering formerly covered with a dark pigment under the glaze, with a partly visible double incised lines and scrolling arabesque band above
Exterior: barely visible vertical lines and traces of yellow glaze and cream slip on the body indicate the exterior was incised, possibly with lettering
History note: Bequeathed by Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher
Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L Glaisher
Height: 8 cm
Weight: 82 g
Width: 6.3 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
Late 13th - 14th century
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream, almost all flaked off)
glaze
( yellow, almost all flaked off)
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Rim
Diameter 27 cm
Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with reddish body tone, coated with cream slip, incised under a yellow glaze
Accession number: C.1992-1928
Primary reference Number: 72941
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) "Sherd" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72941 Accessed: 2023-03-22 20:38:55
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72941
|title=Sherd
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-22 20:38:55|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-72941
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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