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Pottery: Unknown
Earthenware coated in a white slip, incised and painted in green under a colourless glaze
Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip incised and painted in green under a colourless glaze
Shape: conical bowl with plane rim, sits on a concave disc base
Interior: the body is coated in a white slip coloured green on the rim. On the upper body, a frieze of opposing triangles surrounded by spirals is incised and coloured with green. On the body, decorated with incised lines and green dots, a bird sits amongst stylised scalloped leaves. Covered with a colourless glaze.
Exterior: the upper body is covered with a white slip coloured green under a colourless glaze.
History note: Bought from Garabed, May 1926
Oscar Raphel Bequest
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 361 g
Width: 20.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
12th Century
Circa
1100
-
Circa
1199
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
glaze
( colourless)
pigment
( green)
slip
( white)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( colourless)
pigment
( green)
slip
( white)
Rim
Diameter 20.3 cm
Base
Diameter 6.7 cm
Throwing : Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip incised and painted in green under a colourless glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label serrated on the upper and lower edges
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Inscription present: circular paper label
Accession number: OC.142-1946
Primary reference Number: 77570
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/77570 Accessed: 2024-04-19 12:29:15
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-19 12:29:15|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-77570
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: C.31-2013
Accession Number: E.277.1932
Accession Number: O.5-2017
Accession Number: E.132.1903
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