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Production: Unknown
Fritware, probably wheel thrown with carved decoration, painted in blue and yellow
History note: Joseph Dickson; sold Christie's, 17 march 1911, lot 155 (seond part).
Given by The Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 24.8 cm
Weight: 734 g
Width: 18.3 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: Given (1911-03-20) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
18th century
Ottoman
Circa
1700
CE
-
Circa
1800
CE
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, yellow)
glaze
( transparent, white)
Interior Rim
composed of
pigment
( blue)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( transparent, white, as far as the eye can see)
Rim
Diameter 4.9 cm
Base
Diameter 9.4 cm
Exterior Body
Throwing : Fritware, probably wheel thrown with carved decoration, painted in blue and yellow
Inscription present: white paper label with serrated edge, printed with a red line on one edge, hand written in pencil with '155/3'
Accession number: C.56-1911
Primary reference Number: 75529
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) "Ewer" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75529 Accessed: 2023-03-28 23:42:15
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: OC.33 & A-1946
Accession Number: E.210.1954
Accession Number: C.738-2016
Accession Number: JL.33-1984
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