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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware coated in a white slip, carved under a yellow glaze
Red-brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip, carved and covered with a yellow glaze
Shape: slightly up-turned rim, the body is flat and the base slightly convex, sits on a low foot ring.
Interior: a bull with a dog attacking its back against a background of scrolling vegetation. Below the bull a quadruped, possibly another dog, while above a bird perches in mid air. All figures and vegetation appear in yellow against a brown background, spots of brown appear on the body of the bull in particular which indicates that this colour may have been added as a secondary glaze.
Exterior: the body is slipped and glazed unevenly but otherwise undecorated.
Oscar Raphel Bequest
Height: 3.3 cm
Weight: 671 g
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: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
Late 19th-early 20th Century
Circa
1875
-
Circa
1920
Probably late 19th / early 20th century copy
Interior
composed of
glaze
( brown, probably added at a later date than manufacture to achieve the Garrus ware effect)
slip
( white)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( white)
glaze
( yellow)
Base
Diameter 17.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 27 cm
Throwing : Red-brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip, incised and covered with a yellow glaze
Inscription present: pink rectangular label with serrated edge
Inscription present: small white circular label
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Accession number: OC.150-1946
Primary reference Number: 77581
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) "Plate" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77581 Accessed: 2023-05-31 17:47:23
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|title=Plate
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-31 17:47:23|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: E.278.1900
Accession Number: C.183C-1934
Accession Number: C.183B-1934
Accession Number: E.P.449
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