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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware coated in white glaze painted in blue
Earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a thick white glaze painted in blue
Shape: hemispherical bowl with an everted rim sits on a very low foot ring
Interior: on the base a triangle with hatched corners frames a central rosette. Radiating from the triangle, alternating circles and stylised irises are painted on the body.
Exterior: undecorated except for the glaze
History note: Bought from Mustafha, Cairo, Februaru 1924
Oscar Raphel Bequest
Height: 6 cm
Weight: 294 g
Width: 20.1 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: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
9th Century
Circa
800
CE
-
Circa
899
CE
Interior
composed of
painting overglaze
( blue, painted before firing)
Rim
Diameter 20.1 cm
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
opaque white
Glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a thick white glaze painted in blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: small circular paper label
Inscription present: Arabic numeral written on the vessel surface
Inscription present: written on the vessel surface
Accession number: OC.143-1946
Primary reference Number: 77571
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77571 Accessed: 2023-03-23 05:15:02
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-23 05:15:02|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-77571
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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Accession Number: E.P.467
Accession Number: E.P.240
Accession Number: E.P.260
Accession Number: E.277.1932
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