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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a blue glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a blue glaze painted with lustre
Shape: hemispherical bowl with slightly everted rim, sits on a narrow, flaring foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a lustre band. On the body two roundels filled with jewel like motifs are surrounded by panels, containing lustre dots and scrolls, and diagonal lustre lines.
Exterior: lustre band on the rim and dots or dashes of lustre on the body, glaze is slightly pitted and runs over the surface evenly terminating on the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 4.2 cm
Weight: 85 g
Width: 10.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Monumental style
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, slightly pitted and runs over the surface evenly terminating on the foot ring)
oxide colours
( lustre)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( blue)
Rim
Diameter 10.7 cm
Base
Diameter 3.9 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a blue glaze painted with lustre
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and upper edge
Accession number: C.117-1935
Primary reference Number: 71453
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.71
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/71453 Accessed: 2024-11-25 06:18:51
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71453
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 06:18:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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