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Cypriot bowl with a figure

Image attached to OC.101-1938

An image of Bowl. Unknown maker, Cyprus. Earthenware, coated with white slip. With decoration scratched through it under a polychrome coloured glaze, 1400-1599.

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Bowl. Unknown maker, Cyprus. Earthenware, coated with white slip. With decoration scratched through it under a polychrome coloured glaze, 1400-1599.

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  • Accession Number: OC.101-1938
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Mark Box
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 838.06kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2012:06:20 12:50:51

Key words

15th Century 16th Century bowl earthenware Fitz_AA glazed Medieval polychrome pottery slip slip-coated slipware

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