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Probably
Unknown
(Potter)
Earthenware painted in green and brown in an white glaze
Buff earthenware, wheel thrown, painted in green and brown in a white glaze.
Shape: irregular conical bowl sitting on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: on the body, wide green and narrower brown horseshoe shaped curves surround a rough green cross, defined by parallel lines and dotted with brown that radiates from the base.
Exterior: on the rim glaze spills over from the interior, otherwise undecorated.
History note: Bought from Garabed
Oscar Raphael bequest, 1941, received, 1946
Height: 7.7 cm
Weight: 699 g
Width: 24.8 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.
End of 9th century - 10th Century
Circa
880
CE
-
Circa
999
CE
Fayyumi Ware
Interior
composed of
pigment
( green, brown)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Rim
composed of
glaze
( white)
Base
Diameter 11.6 cm
Rim
Diameter 24.8 cm
Throwing : Buff earthenware, wheel thrown, painted in green and brown in a white glaze
Inscription present: round paper label adhered to the exterior base
Inscription present: inscription directly onto the vessel surface
Accession number: OC.151-1946
Primary reference Number: 77582
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 (2022)
"Bowl"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77582 Accessed: 2022-08-07 21:02:44
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77582
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-08-07 21:02:44|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-77582
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/OC_151_1946_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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</div>
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