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Potter: Unknown
Fritware incised and painted in five colours under a clear glaze
Fritware, wheel made with incised decoration and painted in blue, red, yellow, black and green under a clear, slightly crazed glaze
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a slightly out-turned rim on a narrow foot ring
Interior: around the rim a frieze of blue petals and stylised stems with green and yellow leaves interspersed with red dots. Painted in the roundel and enclosed within two blue concentric lines, a polychrome floral spray framed by two green ‘saz’ style leaves.
Exterior: on the rim a repeating frieze of three black semi-circles with red central dot is reserved in blue and yellow. On the body inter-locking palmette medallions outlined in green and black contain incised lozenges and a dotted pine stem in yellow, black and red. Glaze covers the exterior surface including the underside of the foot ring.
History note: Raymond Ades; Mrs Raymond Ades
Bequeathed by Mrs Raymond Ades
Height: 7.1 cm
Weight: 207 g
Width: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Ades, Raymond, Mrs
18th Century, first half#
Circa
1700
CE
-
1750
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, red, yellow, black and green)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, red, yellow, black and green)
Rim
Diameter 12.3 cm
Base
Diameter 4.6 cm
clear, slightly crazed
Glaze
Fritware
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel made with incised decoration and painted in blue, red, yellow, black and green under a clear, slightly crazed glaze
Glazing
Inscription present: inscription under the glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label adhered to the underside of the foot ring
Inscription present: rectangular paper label adhered to the underside of the foot ring
Accession number: C.21-2009
Primary reference Number: 71032
Old object number: AL.105-1948
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/71032 Accessed: 2024-12-22 20:54:44
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 20:54:44|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-71032
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