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Potter: Unknown
Porcelain painted in four colours under a clear glaze
Hard-paste porcelain, wheel thrown, painted in red, blue, turquoise and black under a clear glaze.
Shape: segmental bowl with slightly angled plain rim sitting on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: on the rim a frieze of stylised blue tulips with turquoise leaves are separated by blue flowers with a red centre, all outlined in black and painted between two black concentric lines. On the body, an arabesque outlined in blue incorporates red split palmettes painted against a black fish scale pattern coloured blue or turquoise.
Exterior: black concentric lines are painted on the rim, at the join between lip and body and on the foot ring. On the body a frieze of black spirals are highlighted in blue. On the underside of the foot ring a mark consists of a line within a circle highlighted in turquoise. Glaze covers the entire exterior.
History note: H.J. Pfungst F.S.A
Given by H.J. Pfungst F.S.A
Height: 7 cm
Weight: 818 g
Width: 29.2 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: Given (1909) by Pfungst, H. J., FSA
Late 19th Century
Circa
1845
-
1899
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red, blue, turquoise and black)
Base
Diameter 15.3 cm
Rim
Diameter 29.2 cm
clear, covers entire exterior
Glaze
hard paste
Porcelain
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain, wheel thrown, painted in red, blue, turquoise and black under a clear glaze
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Inscription present: directly onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.3-1909
Primary reference Number: 74460
Old object number: C.148A-1909
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) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74460 Accessed: 2023-05-28 17:44:30
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