IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74908
accession number:	C.4.7-1919

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 4 July 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
object type: earthenware bowl fragment, carved and incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of light and dark brown pigment
title:	sherd

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74908





TECHNIQUES
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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
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1250 - 1399
creation date earliest:	1250
creation date latest:	1399
culture:	13th Century, Late-14th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9.7

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 501

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 19.1



CITATIONS
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Saracenic Heraldry
Renaissance of Islam. Art of the Mamluks
Ceramic Evidence for Political Transformations in Early Mamluk Egypt
Ceramics from Islamic Lands
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IMAGES

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width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
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height: 550 pixels
width: 760 pixels

surrogate: preview
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width: 250 pixels