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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze
Fritware bowl, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: carinated bowl with a slightly out-turned rim, sits on a narrow, slightly flaring foot ring base
Interior: a blue line is painted on the rim. On the body a complex arabesque pattern, incorporating palmettes and split leaves, radiates from a star shaped rosette on the base.
Exterior: on the rim and neck a blue band is outlined in black and painted in black with an inscription. On the body black T-shaped arabesques alternate with blue and black palmettes above a black band. Glaze covers the foot ring unevenly, including the underside with the exception of the rim of the foot ring.
History note: Purportedly from the Gurgan area; the father of Major Raymond Ades; Major Raymond Ades; the Ades family, by whom lent in 1983.
Given by the Ades family to the commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 10.8 cm
Weight: 405 g
Width: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1998-11-23) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
painting underglaze
( black, blue)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( transparent, white)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( transparent, white, covers the foot ring unevenly)
Rim
Diameter 20.5 cm
Base
Diameter 7.4 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a transparent white glaze
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
Inscription present: oval paper label
Inscription present: white rectangle with former loan number
Accession number: C.52-1998
Primary reference Number: 28799
Old object number: AL.9-1983
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 (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/28799 Accessed: 2024-12-18 13:21:38
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/28799
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 13:21:38|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-28799
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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