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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Shape: everted, ledge rim on a body with straight sides descending via a carination onto a low, wide foot ring. A strap handle is attached to the rim and to a mid point on the body.
Exterior: painted in black lines under a turquoise glaze that runs over the surface to a point just above or on the carination. Thin spots of glaze are present on the under side of the foot ring. A fragment of another pot is adhered to the lower body due to poor firing conditions.
Interior: covered with turquoise glaze, no other decoration visible.
Given by Mrs Sigismund Goetze
Height: 11.8 cm
Weight: 576 g
Width: 17.4 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: Given (1942-03-03) by Goetze, Constance, Mrs
12th-13th Century
Circa
1200
CE
-
1350
CE
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 16.5 cm
Base
Diameter 9.1 cm
Exterior Body
Throwing : Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Accession number: OC.6-1943
Primary reference Number: 77777
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) "Jar" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77777 Accessed: 2023-06-01 16:37:45
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Accession Number: E.S.14
Accession Number: E.S.13
Accession Number: E.S.15
Accession Number: E.P.267
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