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(Production)
Fritware painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze
Fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a tall, cylindrical foot ring.
Interior: on the body a frieze of almond shaped medallions, containing rosettes and spiralling tadpole leaves reserved in turquoise, and flower pots containing symmetrical flower arrangements. On the base a central rosette with radiating tadpole leaves painted in a spiral and reserved in blue.
Exterior: on the body, painted in blue, a frieze of large flowers, spiralling stems and leaves is painted above a band of angular, slanted leaves. On the foot stylised meandering scrollwork is reserved in blue. The base is glazed except for the rim of the foot ring.
History note: Formerly on loan, now given in memory, from the collection of Lt. Col. The Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C.
Given anonymously
Height: 15 cm
Weight: 1234 g
Width: 27.8 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: Given anonymously
(1905-06-01)
by
Boscawen, M.T., Lt Col the Hon, DSO, MC
Early 16th Century
Circa
1530
CE
-
Circa
1535
CE
Potter’s style
Base
Diameter 11 cm
Rim
Diameter 27.8 cm
blue (cobalt), turquoise Pigment colourless, except for the rim of the foot ring Glaze Fritware
Throwing : Fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze
Painting underglaze Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: circular paper label
Accession number: C.12-1979
Primary reference Number: 71601
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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