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Unknown
(Potter)
Earthenware coated in slip carved under a green glaze
Brown earthenware, probably mould made, coated in a white slip carved under a green glaze.
Shape: trefoil spout on a straight neck descending via a carination onto a cylindrical body narrowing slightly onto a flat base.
Exterior: on the spout and lower body concentric friezes of scrolling palmettes are carved above or below cable patterns. On the upper body and handle scrolling vegetation incorporating split palmettes, while on the shoulder a Kufic inscription is present. Glaze runs unevenly onto the lower body and base.
Interior: glaze continues to a mid-point on the neck.
History note: Bought from Garabed
Oscar Raphel Bequest
Height: 16.5 cm
Weight: 353 g
Width: 8.4 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.
12th-13th Century
Circa
1100
-
Circa
1299
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( green, runs unevenly onto the lower body and base)
slip
( white)
Interior Neck
composed of
glaze
( green)
Rim
Diameter 4.3 cm
Base
Diameter 5.7 cm
Moulding : Earthenware, probably mould made, coated in a white slip carved under a green glaze
Inscription present: Kufic style inscription
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated lower edge
Inscription present: circular paper label
Accession number: OC.161-1946
Primary reference Number: 77595
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)
"Ewer"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77595 Accessed: 2022-05-21 01:20:36
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