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Unknown
(Potter)
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze with blue and over the glaze with lustre.
Shape: carinated bowl with 'hammer head' rim, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: on the rim an undulating concentric line painted in lustre is framed by a lustre bands. On the body a frieze of palmettes, reserved on a dotted lustre ground, is painted above lustre scrolls which form a wave like pattern. In the roundel an ass with dotted coat prances amongst palmette trees and rosettes, with a bird flying overhead and fish swimming in water below, all reserved on a dotted lustre ground. The ass and sections of the body are splashed with blue or turquoise pigment.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a band of blue. On the neck a pseudo calligraphic band is painted in blue and lustre. On the body plamettes are painted in lustre and are framed by lustre bands.
Purchased from the Glaisher Fund
Height: 10.5 cm
Weight: 893 g
Width: 22.5 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: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
Second half of 13th century
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1299
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, covers the surface to the foot ring where it terminates unevenly)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Interior Body
composed of
pigment
( splashes of blue, turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 22.5 cm
Base
Diameter 8.7 cm
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.89-1935
Primary reference Number: 76297
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.15
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/76297 Accessed: 2022-05-21 10:43:53
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