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Pottery: Unknown
Orange-brown calcareous earthenware with dark grey core, three groups of horizontal turned bands, thumbed, slightly sagging base, and thin remnants of olive-green lead-glaze on the upper part. The handle has thumb prints on either side of the top and on its lower end.
History note: Found in a well in Scotts Yard, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 31 cm
Width: 27 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 (1930) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Second half of 13th century
14th Century
Circa
1250
CE
-
1500
CE
Found in a well at Scotts Yard, Whittlesford
The jug was probably hand-formed and finished on a wheel.
Upper Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( olive-green)
Base
Diameter 16 cm
Part
Accession number: C.56-1930
Primary reference Number: 77084
Old object number: M.15 or M.16-1930
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) "Jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77084 Accessed: 2023-03-21 04:37:04
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Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
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