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Potter: Unknown
Buff earthenware, wheel thrown, with incised and applied decoration under a turquoise crazed alkaline glaze.
Shape: flange rim on a straight neck and bi-conical body with a flaring foot ring base. Twisted rope handles, with thumb rests and applied clay discs, are attached to the upper neck to the body at the point of carination where lugs, are present.
Decoration: incised chevron pattern on the upper and mid points on the neck with applied clay chevrons on the lower neck. On the upper body, vertical fluting is incised above a band of rouletted decoration and further incised chevrons. Turquoise glaze covers the body unevenly, with a large section of the body uncovered and terminating on the foot.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 34.5 cm
Weight: 3094 g
Width: 23.4 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 (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
Mid 2nd century BC - early 3rd century AD
Circa
247
CE
-
Circa
224
CE
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, covers the body unevenly, with a large section of the body uncovered and terminating on the foot)
Interior Rim
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, runs over from exterio)
Rim
Diameter 10.3 cm
Base
Diameter 14.4 cm
Body
Handles
Accession number: C.54-1935
Primary reference Number: 75470
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
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) "Jar" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75470 Accessed: 2023-05-28 20:57:05
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Accession Number: E.S.14
Accession Number: E.S.13
Accession Number: E.S.15
Accession Number: E.P.267
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