Maker:
Unknown
(Perhaps)
Unidentified Spanish pottery
(Perhaps)
Four-sided dish fragment with a short length of the footring on the underside. Pale red earthenware, the reverse unglazed, the front tin-glazed, and painted in copper-green and manganese-brown. Part of a central medallion containing an eye-shaped and a lozenge-shaped motif, surrounded by part of two manganse-brown circles.
History note: From a dig at Kom el Dik, Alexandria. Found by Professor A. J. B. Wace
Exchanged, from Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
Length: 10.8 cm
Width: 8.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1948-10) by Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt
14th Century
1300
-
1399
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( copper-green and manganese-brown)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
pale red Earthenware
Accession number: C.18.17E-1948
Primary reference Number: 137751
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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