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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
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 3.9 cm
Weight: 158 g
Width: 10.7 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 and dark brown)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Foot Ring
Diameter 6.3 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 dark and light brown pigment
Accession number: C.4.3-1919
Primary reference Number: 74842
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/74842 Accessed: 2023-06-04 22:58:02
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-04 22:58:02|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-74842
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