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Potter: Unknown
Cream fritware with painted and pierced decoration under a clear glaze
Cream fritware, wheel thrown, with blue and black underglaze paint and a pierced frieze on the upper body, all covered with a clear glaze, heavily crazed in places.
Shape: Finely potted biconical bowl with a carination on the lower body; plain rim and moderately high foot ring.
Interior: Band of Arabic script (cursive) around the rim, painted in reserve against a black background. On the upper body an open-work frieze, comprising pierced holes forming arabesques, is enclosed between two black painted concentric lines. On the base, a cross-shaped floral design is painted in blue with black highlighting. Three spur marks are visible on the base resulting from stacking, using trivets, during firing.
Exterior: Rim has a repeating crescent shape pattern in black below which the upper body is decorated with the reverse pierced pattern, designed to be viewed from the interior. A wide concentric line is painted in black on the lower body. The transparent glaze covers the body to the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 10 cm
Weight: 375 g
Width: 22.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
1220
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( transparent)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue and black)
glaze
( transparent, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 22.5 cm
Base
Diameter 8.9 cm
Throwing : Cream fritware, wheel thrown, with painted and pierced decoration under a clear glaze
Inscription present: band of script around the rim, painted in reserve against a black background
Inscription present: Pink rectangular label with serrated edge in poor condition with a central section missing; additional label with a blue border is almost destroyed, it is applied to this central section
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top and right hand edge
Accession number: C.166-1935
Primary reference Number: 72408
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.3
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/72408 Accessed: 2024-11-22 06:04:18
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University of Cambridge}}
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