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Earthenware fragment, incised and carved through a cream slip under a thin yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of dark and 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 dark and light brown pigment
Shape: base, straight foot ring and small part of lower body of a vessel
Interior: over a cream slip, an incised circle around the base encloses a blazon design of a pair of polo sticks with a ball below the foot of each stick, the sticks and balls enhanced with a thicker layer of slip creating a relief effect and paler tone under the glaze, the ground between the sticks enhanced with a light brown pigment, and around them, with dark brown, the whole covered in a layer of yellow glaze
Exterior: thin layer of yellow glaze over an unevenly applied cream slip allowing areas of darker body fabric to show through, the underside of the foot ring unslipped and unglazed
Legal notes
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 3.9 cm
Weight: 158 g
Width: 10.7 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
( light and dark brown)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Foot Ring
Diameter 6.3 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 and light brown pigment
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.4.3-1919
Primary reference Number: 74842
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
