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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted in red slip, blue, green and black under a colourless glaze
Shape: segmental bowl with a flange rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: on the rim, a rock wave pattern is painted in blue, black and green. On the cavetto, a frieze of thick horizontal red or blue lines interspersed with thin vertical black lines. On the body, reserved in red and radiating from a polychrome central rosette, a symmetrical pattern of whole and split palmettes, highlighted with blue and green, is evocative of rumi designs.
Exterior: on the body blue stylised waves and fleurs de lys are outlined in black. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring.
T. H. Riches Bequest
Height: 6.4 cm
Weight: 1001 g
Width: 31.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Riches, Thomas Henry
16th Century, Late
Circa
1580
CE
-
Circa
1590
CE
Abstract style
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red slip, blue, green and black)
Base
Diameter 16.4 cm
Rim
Diameter 31.1 cm
colourless, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, mould made, painted in red slip, blue, green and black under a colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.25-1950
Primary reference Number: 73643
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73643 Accessed: 2024-12-22 15:38:29
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