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Unknown
(Potter)
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted in red slip, emerald green, blue and black under a colourless glaze
Shape: segmental bowl with a foliated, angled flange rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: enclosed between blue bracketed lines on the rim, a rock wave pattern is painted. A partial cloud band on the upper body hangs from the flange. On the body, emanating from a clasped leafy tuft, a floral spray of red carnations and blue tulips; the latter with scaled, emerald green buds.
Exterior: on the body, paired blue tulips and green and blue rosettes are painted.
History note: Alfred Spero, 12A Regent Street, Lonodn SW1, partly exchanged for a Deruta dish, Lot 8 in the Glowgowski sale
Height: 5.8 cm
Weight: 998 g
Width: 30.2 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: Bought
(1932)
Late 16th Century
Circa
1565
CE
-
Circa
1575
CE
Floral style
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( green and blue)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red slip, emerald green, blue and black)
Base
Diameter 15.3 cm
Rim
Diameter 30.2 cm
colourless, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring Glaze Fritware
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, painted in red slip, emerald green, blue and black under a colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.27-1932
Primary reference Number: 75149
1778
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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"Dish"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75149 Accessed: 2022-05-21 10:02:24
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