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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, moulded and coated in a purple glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown and moulded, coated in a purple glaze
Shape: globular body on a low foot ring, tubular collared neck with a flaring rim.
Exterior: moulded decoration on the shoulder comprised leaping quadrupeds amongst leafy foliage. Glaze runs over the surface to a point on the lower body.
Interior: undecorated except for glaze on the rim.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 21 cm
Weight: 607 g
Width: 14.8 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: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1199
CE
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( purple, runs over the surface to a point on the lower body)
Rim
Diameter 4.5 cm
Base
Diameter 7.5 cm
Shoulder
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown and moulded, coated in a purple glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around upper and right hand edge
Inscription present: written directly onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.160-1935
Primary reference Number: 72294
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.19
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 (2023) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72294 Accessed: 2023-06-03 23:33:37
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72294
|title=Bottle
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 23:33:37|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-72294
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/aa13/C_160_1935_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bottle"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bottle</figcaption>
</figure>
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