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Sherd: C.4.1-1919

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Current Location: In storage

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Potter: Unknown

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Earthenware fragment, incised and carved through a cream slip under a thin yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of dark brown pigment

Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of dark brown pigment
Shape: base, flaring foot ring and small part of lower body of a rounded vessel
Interior: over a cream slip, an incised circle around the base is segmented horizontally one third of the way up, below the line left undecorated and above the line a blazon design of a pair of polo sticks, depicted on a background painted with dark brown pigment, the whole lightly coated with a thin yellow glaze
Exterior: thin layer of yellow glaze over an unevenly applied cream slip allowing areas of darker body fabric to show through

Legal notes

Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Measurements and weight

Height: 4.8 cm
Weight: 383 g
Width: 11.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1919) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa 1250 CE - Circa 1399 CE

School or Style

Mamluk

Components of the work

Interior composed of slip ( cream) pigment ( dark brown) glaze ( yellow)
Exterior Body composed of slip ( cream) glaze ( yellow, thin layer)
Foot Ring Diameter 6.9 cm

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of dark brown pigment

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.4.1-1919
Primary reference Number: 74798

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 25 March 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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