Unknown
(Potter)
Earthenware coated in a white slip painted in green and brown under a colourless glaze
Pinkish earthenware, coated in a cream slip painted in green and brown under a colourless glaze
Shape: conical bowl with a plain rim, on a disc base
Interior: coated in a cream slip with brown scalloped line hanging from the rim above a green concentric band. The body is divided into three segments in which a triangle, filled with a scroll and dots, is painted in brown. All covered in a colourless glaze
Exterior: the upper body is coated unevenly with cream slip.
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: 5.8 cm
Weight: 251 g
Width: 16 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2019-07-01)
by
Ades Family
10th/11th Century
Circa
900
-
Circa
1099
Interior
composed of
glaze
( colourless)
slip
( cream)
pigment
( green and brown, probably applied in a slip)
Rim
Diameter 16 cm
Base
Diameter 6.6 cm
Exterior Upper Body
Throwing : Pinkish earthenware, coated in a cream slip painted in green and brown under a colourless glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.68-2019
Primary reference Number: 71102
Previous ID: AL.97-1948
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 (2022)
"Bowl"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71102 Accessed: 2022-06-25 02:05:51
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