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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, carved, incised and pierced under a white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, decorated with open-work, carving and incising under a white glaze
Shape: conical bowl with carination close to the base and a dentellated rim, sits on a foot ring base
Interior: two wide bands of vertical lines are carved and pierced into the body, separated by a central carved horizontal band and incised lines above and below.
Exterior: piercing from the interior is visible on the exterior. Glaze runs over the foot ring, where it terminates unevenly.
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: 7.5 cm
Weight: 150 g
Width: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1150
CE
-
Circa
1258
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, running over the foot ring where it terminates unevenly.)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 15.5 cm
Base
Diameter 5.2 cm
Interior Body
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, decorated with open-work, carving and incising under a white glaze
Inscription present: rectangular black label printed in white
Inscription present: rectangular white label printed in black
Inscription present: rectangular white label with border of red ink, and faded black lettering
Accession number: C.89-2019
Primary reference Number: 71037
Former number: AL.81-1948
Previous ID: AL.1-1983
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/71037 Accessed: 2024-12-22 20:41:53
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71037
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 20:41:53|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-71037
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_1983.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
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