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Earthenware fragment, incised and carved through a cream slip under a thin yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of light 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 light brown pigment
Shape: part of base, tall foot ring and lower body of a rounded vessel
Interior: over a cream slip, a narrow incised band around the base is enhanced with light brown pigment and encloses a blazon design of a pair of polo sticks, also painted with light brown, over a ground enhanced with a thicker layer of cream slip creating a relief effect and paler tone under the glaze, the lower body undecorated, and the whole covered in a coating of yellow glaze
Exterior: yellow glaze over a thick layer of cream slip, also coating the outside and underside of the foot ring, undecorated
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 6.1 cm
Weight: 294 g
Width: 14.1 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
Late 13th - 14th century
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
pigment
( light brown)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Foot Ring
Diameter 8.5 cm
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 light brown pigment
Accession number: C.4.2-1919
Primary reference Number: 74820
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/74820 Accessed: 2023-06-03 19:57:46
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Sherd
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 19:57:46|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-74820
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