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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, incised and splashed with blue under a clear glaze
Cream fritware, wheel thrown with lightly incised decoration and splashes of blue paint under a clear crazed and pitted glaze.
Shape: Segmental bowl with flat rim and a low foot ring, cut away on the interior.
Interior: A frieze of lightly incised decoration on the upper body, possibly an Arabic inscription. Four splashes of blue colouring at roughly regular intervals on the upper body. The central roundel is incised with four small scrolls and has a dot of blue colouring.
Exterior: undecorated except for a clear glaze that extends down to lower body.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 5.8 cm
Weight: 312 g
Width: 20.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
1199
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( transparent)
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
glaze
( transparent)
Rim
Diameter 20.8 cm
Base
Diameter 8.4 cm
Throwing : Cream fritware, wheel thrown with lightly incised decoration and splashes of blue paint under a clear crazed and pitted glaze
Inscription present: frieze of lightly incised decoration on the upper body, possibly an arabic inscription
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top, bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: inscription directly onto surface of vessel
Inscription present: paper label was at one point placed over the Brangwyn label but has been torn off leaving remnants of paper
Accession number: C.170-1935
Primary reference Number: 72479
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.57
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/72479 Accessed: 2024-12-18 19:08:41
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 19:08:41|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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