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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue under a turquoise glaze
Fritware painted in blue under a turquoise crackled glaze
Shape: bi-conical bowl with an everted, ‘hammer head’ rim descends via a carination onto a narrow foot ring
Interior: the rim is dashed with lines and crescents. On the body, delineated by a pair of horizontal lines, two birds, both with heads turned at an angle to their bodies strut either side of a tree with feathery leaves. Three scar marks on the interior indicate the use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln. Glaze has run on the neck, forming droplets at one point indicating that the vessel was fired upside down.
Exterior: pairs of vertical lines run from the rim onto the lower body. Glaze terminates on the lower body.
History note: Formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet (Paris)
Oscar Raphael bequest, 1941, received, 1946
Height: 11.6 cm
Weight: 1669 g
Width: 29.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
14th Century-15th Century, Early
Circa
1300
CE
-
Circa
1425
CE
Shape and interior decoration are Timurid but the exterior decoration could point to an earlier date.
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( turquoise, crackled)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( turquoise, crackled)
Rim
Diameter 29.7 cm
Base
Diameter 9.7 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue under a turquoise crackled glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edges
Inscription present: small circular label
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: OC.147-1946
Primary reference Number: 77576
Oscar Raphael: 33
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/77576 Accessed: 2024-11-18 00:26:54
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University of Cambridge}}
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