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Candlestick: OC.171-1946

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Current Location: Gallery 33

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Potter: Unknown

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Description

Fritware, mould made and painted in blue under a turquoise glaze
Shape: an eleven-sided heavily fluted flaring body leading to a sharply carinated shoulder with protruding nodules on the drip tray. The socket comprises a nine-sided cylindrical neck with a flaring, out-tuned rim on which lozenges are moulded.
Exterior: the fluting is painted with vertical panels of blue, as are the nodules on the shoulder and lozenges on the rim. Glaze runs over the lower body forming droplets around the base.
Interior: socket is thickly glazed but body only covered with thin glaze.

Legal notes

Oscar Raphael bequest, 1941, received, 1946

Measurements and weight

Height: 18 cm
Weight: 864 g
Width: 18.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.

Dating

13th Century-14th Century
Circa 1200 CE - Circa 1399 CE

Note

Skeumorph of a metal form

Components of the work

Exterior composed of pigment ( blue) glaze ( turquoise, runs over the lower body forming droplets around the base)
Interior composed of glaze ( turquoise, socket is thickly glazed but body only covered with thin glaze)
Base Diameter 18.5 cm
Rim Diameter 8.5 cm

Materials used in production

Fritware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Fritware, mould made and painted in blue under a turquoise glaze

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: small circular label

  • Text: 27
  • Location: Interior base
  • Method of creation: Hand written
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.171-1946
Primary reference Number: 77607

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 25 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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