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Potter: Unknown
Cream fritware painted in blue and incised under a transparent glaze
Cream fritware bowl, wheel thrown, painted in blue and incised under a transparent glaze.
Shape: Finely potted bowl with in-turned rim, bulbous body and low foot ring base.
Interior: Blue painted rim and incised decoration on central roundel comprising scrolls and radiating vertical lines.
Exterior: Incised palmettes and scrolling vegetation on upper body under a blue painted rim. Clear glaze extends to the lower body but not foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 9.4 cm
Weight: 422 g
Width: 20.2 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: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century
Circa
1200
-
1299
Rim
composed of
pigment
( blue)
Diameter 19.3 cm
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
glaze
( transparent)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( transparent)
Base
Diameter 8.8 cm
Interior Base
Upper Exterior Body
Throwing : Cream fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and incised under a transparent glaze
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.106-1935
Primary reference Number: 71249
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.91
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 (2023) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71249 Accessed: 2023-06-02 00:28:28
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71249
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-02 00:28:28|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-71249
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/aa13/C_106_1935_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: E.P.467
Accession Number: E.P.240
Accession Number: E.P.260
Accession Number: E.277.1932
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