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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware coated in a white slip carved and covered in a clear or green glaze
Brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip carved and covered with a clear or green glaze
Shape: conical bowl with a disc base and slightly in-turned rim
Interior: green glaze from the exterior runs onto the surface unevenly. Below the rim a carved frieze of floriated kufic script.
Exterior: cream slip and green tinted glaze cover the upper body unevenly.
History note: Excavated at Zanjan
Given by Oscar Raphel
Height: 5.2 cm
Weight: 178 g
Width: 13 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 (1905-04-06) by Raphael, Oscar C.
12th-13th Century
Circa
1100
-
Circa
1299
Interior
composed of
glaze
( clear, with green pigment running from the exterior surface)
slip
( white)
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
glaze
( coloured with green pigment)
slip
( white)
Rim
Diameter 12.7 cm
Base
Diameter 5.2 cm
Throwing : Brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip carved and covered with a clear or green glaze
Accession number: C.7-1923
Primary reference Number: 75897
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75897 Accessed: 2023-06-09 12:59:34
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75897
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-09 12:59:34|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-75897
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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