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Earthenware bowl fragment, carved and incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of light and dark brown pigment
Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, carved and incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of light and dark brown pigment
Shape: base, part of a tall flaring foot ring, and part of body of a segmental bowl with a wide flange
Interior: on the base, incised through a cream slip, a cup blazon enhanced with dark brown pigment is depicted over a diamond-shaped ground (possibly representing a napkin) coloured with extra slip, with light brown pigment filling in the four lozenge shaped areas surrounding the diamond, all enclosed by a double incised circle, above the undecorated cavetto, the flange bears an interspersed band of calligraphic phrases, the letters enhanced with dark brown pigment and extra cream slip, separated by brown circles enclosed within larger brown rings.
Exterior: beige glaze over a cream slip, undecorated apart from the underside of the flange which bears a band of s-shaped motifs in dark and light brown pigment over a ground of an extra layer of cream slip
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 9.7 cm
Weight: 501 g
Width: 19.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1919) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( beige)
pigment
( light brown and dark brown)
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
pigment
( dark and light brown)
glaze
Foot Ring
Diameter 10 cm
Rim
Diameter 25 cm
Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, carved and incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of light and dark brown pigment
Inscription present: Arabic inscription (undeciphered)
Accession number: C.4.7-1919
Primary reference Number: 74908
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 (2024) "Sherd" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74908 Accessed: 2024-12-25 16:29:31
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University of Cambridge}}
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