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Unknown
(Potter)
Fritware painted with blue and coated in a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown and tooled on the rim, painted in blue and coated in a turquoise glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with lobed rim, sits on a narrow, flaring foot ring
Interior: rim is painted with a blue line, in one place this has run or possibly is accidentally brushed onto the upper body. A series of blue concentric lines are painted at a mid point on the body.
Exterior: painted with a blue band at a mid point on the body. The glaze terminates on the lower body, forming a thick band or droplets.
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 6.8 cm
Weight: 194 g
Width: 12 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
(1911-12-31)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
First half of 13th century
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1250
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( on the lower body, forming a thick band or droplets)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 12 cm
Base
Diameter 5.2 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown and tooled on the rim, painted in blue and coated in a turquoise glaze.
Accession number: C.66-1911
Primary reference Number: 75768
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 (2022)
"Bowl"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75768 Accessed: 2022-08-10 18:49:45
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75768
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-08-10 18:49:45|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-75768
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/C_66_1911_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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</div>
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