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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue, turquoise and black under a white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl on a narrow foot ring
Interior: a radiating design of a blue and turquoise star and triangular panels. Within the panels knot, dots or pseudo calligraphy, are painted in black and blue.
Exterior: the rim is painted black and on the body blue arcading contains a black doted line, imitating a petal design. Impurities within the glaze on the lower body create a lumpy surface; glaze runs over the surface to a point on the lower body
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 10.2 cm
Weight: 470 g
Width: 22.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Mid-14th Century, Mid#
Circa
1260
-
Circa
1350
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( white, transparent. Impurities on the lower body create a lumpy glaze surface; runs over the surface to a point on the lower body)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise, black)
glaze
( white, transparent)
Rim
Diameter 22.4 cm
Base
Diameter 6.7 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.88-1935
Primary reference Number: 76279
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.75
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 (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76279 Accessed: 2024-11-05 16:39:01
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 16:39:01|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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