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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, carved under a turquoise glaze
Fritware bowl, wheel thrown and carved under a cracked turquoise glaze with slight imperfections causing pin prick holes.
Shape: conical bowl with slight carination in the upper body, sits on a foot ring. Rim displays slight indents.
Interior: on the body two sets of vertical lines radiate towards the rim, the upper set are enclosed by concentric lines and are longer, more deeply carved and more closely spaced than the lower set.
Exterior: Undecorated except for glaze which terminates unevenly on the lower body, where droplets are formed.
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: 8.6 cm
Weight: 313 g
Width: 17.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
12th Century, second half
Circa
1150
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, terminating unevenly on the lower body, where droplets are formed)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 17.6 cm
Base
Diameter 6.3 cm
Interior Body
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown and carved under a cracked turquoise glaze with slight imperfections causing pin prick holes
Inscription present: rectangular black paper label, printed in white
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label, printed in black
Inscription present: hand written in pencil
Accession number: C.90-2019
Primary reference Number: 71062
Previous ID: AL.3-1983
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/71062 Accessed: 2024-12-18 15:37:09
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71062
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 15:37:09|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/AL_3_1983.jpg"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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