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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white glaze painted with three colours
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white crazed glaze painted in turquoise, grey red and black.
Shape: carinated bowl with a collared neck, sits on a slightly flared foot ring
Interior: the rim is painted with a grey dentillated pattern. On the neck, contained by red concentric lines, a lozenge pattern is painted in grey enclosing red or turquoise dots. On the base, enclosed within a roundel, a central rosette and radiating arabesques are painted in turquoise, black, red and grey.
Exterior: on the neck a naskh inscription is painted in black. Glaze runs over the surface, terminating on the foot ring unevenly.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 9.3 cm
Weight: 417 g
Width: 21.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( turquoise, grey red and black)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white, runs over the surface, terminating on the foot ring unevenly)
Rim
Diameter 21.4 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Fritware : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white crazed glaze painted in turquoise, grey red and black
Inscription present: hand painted in black
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.131-1935
Primary reference Number: 71774
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BR.76
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/71774 Accessed: 2024-12-18 18:12:56
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71774
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 18:12:56|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-71774
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/aa15/C_131_1935_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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