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Unknown
(Potter)
Earthenware, coated in a white slip, incised under a yellow glaze enhanced with areas of brown pigment
Given by the Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 4.6 cm
Weight: 199 g
Width: 11.1 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: Given
(1919)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
14th Century
Circa
1300
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Base
Diameter 7.8 cm
Accession number: C.4.10-1919
Primary reference Number: 74794
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)
"Sherd"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74794 Accessed: 2022-05-19 22:50:54
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