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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, pierced and incised under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, pierced and incised under a turquoise glaze that covers the surface unevenly.
Shape: conical bowl with gently concave sides, a plain rim with slight and uneven indentations, sits on a low foot ring.
Interior: incised with two concentric lines on the upper body between which scrolling lines are incised and pierced. Glaze covers the surface unevenly leaving small areas on the lower body where the ceramic body is visible and pooling slightly in the base.
Exterior: piercing from the interior visible on the exterior surface. Glaze runs over the surface terminating on the lower body.
History note: Found at Gurgan
Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family and allocated to the Fitzwilliam, 2019
Height: 7 cm
Weight: 168 g
Width: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, runs over the surface terminating on the lower body.)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 15 cm
Base
Diameter 5.3 cm
Interior Body
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, pierced and incised under a turquoise glaze that covers the surface unevenly.
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label
Accession number: C.69-2019
Primary reference Number: 71036
Previous ID: AL.1-1976
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/71036 Accessed: 2024-12-22 10:24:54
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71036
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 10:24:54|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-71036
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/AL_1_1976_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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</div>
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