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Earthenware incised through a cream slip and painted in green under a clear glaze
Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, incised through a cream slip, coloured green on the rim and covered with a clear glaze.
Interior: the rim is coloured with green pigment. On the upper body a narrow band of scrolling vegetation is incised above a wider frieze of palmettes reserved on a hatched background. In the roundel a stylised lion is also incised on a hatched background. All covered with a clear glaze
Exterior: green pigment continues on the rim. White slip covered in a clear glaze continues to the lower body
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 8.6 cm
Weight: 328 g
Width: 18 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
11th-12th Century
Circa
1000
-
Circa
1199
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( clear, covers slip and continues onto lower body)
slip
( cream, continues to the lower body)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( clear)
slip
( cream)
Rim
composed of
pigment
( green)
Diameter 18 cm
Base
Diameter 8.6 cm
Throwing : Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown , incised through a cream slip, coloured green on the rim and covered with a clear glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: inscribed directly onto the vessel surface
Accession number: C.44-1935
Primary reference Number: 75109
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.120
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75109 Accessed: 2024-11-22 01:15:28
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 01:15:28|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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