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Earthenware fragment, carved and incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze
Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, carved and incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze
Shape: part of ribbed wall of a hemispherical bowl-shaped vessel
Interior: incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze, a wide calligraphic register is enclosed between two double incised lines, the letters and decorative circles and dashes between them all enhanced with an extra layer of slip creating a relief effect and paler tone under the glaze, bounded below by an unevenly drawn decorative scalloped band, and above by the lower edge of an incised pattern enhanced with light brown pigment.
Exterior: above an undecorated band glazed in yellow over a very thin layer of slip and bounded above and below by carved and incised ridges, the lower part of a calligraphic band incised through cream slip is visible, the letters enhanced by a dark brown pigment and the decorative dots between the letters by extra cream slip creating a pale colour
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 11.6 cm
Weight: 246 g
Width: 16.3 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
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
pigment
( dark brown)
glaze
( yellow)
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, carved and incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze
Accession number: C.4.22-1919
Primary reference Number: 74822
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/74822 Accessed: 2022-12-07 23:51:47
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Sherd
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-12-07 23:51:47|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-74822
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