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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware, slipped and burnished
Earthenware hard fired, probably hand made and tooled, possibly slipped and burnished.
Shape: oval shape with one end pointed and the other moulded into a face shape. The rim is plain on a body with straight sides except for two ribs at a central point, sits on an irregular foot ring base.
Exterior: The vessel is undecorated with evidence of slipping and burnishing but no remnants of any surface glaze.
Interior: undecorated
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 5.8 cm
Weight: 126 g
Width: 14.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
11th-12th Century
Circa
1000
-
1199
Rim
Diameter 14.5 cm
Base
Diameter 4.8 cm
Exterior
Hand modelling : Earthenware hard fired, probably hand made and tooled, possibly slipped and burnished.
Inscription present: remnants of a rectangular paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.151-1935
Primary reference Number: 72119
Old number: BP.68
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) "Mould" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72119 Accessed: 2024-11-22 00:55:54
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