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Potter: Unknown (Probably)
Pale buff earthenware. Tin-glazed off-white overall. Painted in dark blue, yellow, orange, and a little green.
Shape approximately 60 with convex middle. Circular with broad sloping rim and deep well. The rim has warped during firing.
In the middle, St Francis prays before a Cross, framed by concentric blue circles and nine points enclosing green triangles. On the sides of the well are nine part-yellow and part-orange fruits with a curved line and short strokes above each. The rim is decorated with concentric bands of triangles, paired leaves, ladders, zigzags and circles, and scallops in blue, yellow and orange. A yellow band encircles the edge. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue, MI in monogram crossed by a paraph. The sides of the well are decorated with small overlapping petals and the rim with larger overlapping petals.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926
Diameter: 26.2 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1500
CE
-
1520
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( dark blue, yellow, orange, and a little green)
Throwing
: Pale buff earthenware. Tin-glazed off-white overall. Painted in dark blue, yellow, orange, and a little green.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: circular
Inscription present: part of a rectangular label with cut corners and blue border
Accession number: C.105-1927
Primary reference Number: 71231
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/71231 Accessed: 2024-11-21 23:30:30
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71231
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-21 23:30:30|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-71231
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/aa1/C_105_1927_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
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