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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, painted in brown, green, grey and black on a white slip and under a crazed white glaze
Fritware, heavily potted and wheel thrown, coated in white slip and painted under a crazed white glaze in brown, green, and grey with black outlines.
Shape: segmental bowl with a flange rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: a floral spray occupies the entire surface, it emanates from a grassy tuft on the rim. A central, bi-partite saz leaf is painted in grey with a central prunus spray. Brown and occasionally grey tulips and carnations scroll around the leaf. Some of these flowers are clasped by an agrafe. All decoration is outlined in black.
Exterior: a black scalloped line is painted just below the rim. On the body four scrolling palmettes are outlined in black and coloured with grey that has bled into the surrounding glaze. The underside of the foot ring is covered in a thin white glaze.
Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 5.5 cm
Weight: 1418 g
Width: 33 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1911) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
17th Century, Late
Circa
1670
CE
-
1699
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( green, brown, grey, black)
glaze
( white)
slip
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( grey, black)
glaze
( white)
slip
( white)
Base
Diameter 17.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 33 cm
Throwing : Fritware, heavily potted and wheel thrown, coated in white slip and painted under a crazed white glaze in brown, green, and grey with black outlines
Accession number: C.72-1911
Primary reference Number: 75923
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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