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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black and blue under a transparent white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black and blue under a transparent white glaze
Shape: bi-conical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: a dentilated black band is painted on the rim. On the body radiating triangular panels, alternately highlighted with blue contain an inscription(scratched through the pigment) or blue arabesque respectively. Between the panels three stylised black leaf sprays are painted in a vertical linear band.
Exterior: on the rim a black band is painted, while on the body black waterweeds form a horizontal frieze. Glaze runs over the lower body and foot ring, with spots of glaze on the underside of the base.
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: 183 g
Width: 16.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2019-07-01) by Ades Family
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( transparent, white, runs over the lower body and foot ring, with spots of glaze on the underside of the base)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( transparent, white)
Rim
Diameter 16.6 cm
Base
Diameter 6.6 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black and blue under a transparent white glaze
Inscription present: inscription on the black radiating triangular panels
Inscription present: black paper label printed in white
Inscription present: rectangular paper label obscured by FWM loan label, smaller rectangular label
Accession number: C.71-2019
Primary reference Number: 71071
Previous ID: AL.5-1976
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/71071 Accessed: 2024-11-02 20:18:46
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71071
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-02 20:18:46|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-71071
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/aa38/large_AL_5_1976_1_201808_adn21_dc2.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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