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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in white glaze painted in blue, red and brown and gilded
Red fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue, over the glaze in red and brown and gilded.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a narrow foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a red and blue band. On the body a radiating panel design comprises a blue cross, outlined with red containing vertical lines of gold lozenges surrounded by red or brown circles and scrolling tendrils. Within the arms of the cross lobbed triangular cartouches contain further circles and dots, all painted in red or brown.
Exterior: on the rim a blue band is painted above brown lines which radiate towards the base, imitating a lotus petal design. Glaze runs over the surface terminating unevenly on the foot ring.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 7.5 cm
Weight: 218 g
Width: 15.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1250
CE
-
1399
CE
Central Asia
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue (underglaze), brown (overglaze))
glaze
( white, terminating unevenly on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue (underglaze), red, brown (overglaze))
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 15.8 cm
Base
Diameter 4.7 cm
Exterior Rim
Throwing : Red fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted under the glaze in blue, over the glaze in red and brown and gilded
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: pink paper label with serrated edges
Accession number: C.158-1935
Primary reference Number: 72259
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.119
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/72259 Accessed: 2024-11-25 00:04:24
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{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72259
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 00:04:24|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-72259
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