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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in a white slip painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in a white slip painted in blue with black outlines under a colourless glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with tall cylindrical sides, terminating in a lightly bracketed rim, sits on a low foot ring.
Interior: on the lower body a frieze of bracketed arcades are filled with a flower and scrolling leaves. In the roundel a qilin stands on a hillock, reserved in blue on a background of lotus flowers and leaves. Glaze covers the surface unevenly on one section of the lower body.
Exterior: on the lower body a frieze with bracketed upper section contains storks amongst flowering lotus pants and cloud scrolls, all reserved in blue. Black concentric lines painted on the foot ring. Black seal mark painted in black on the underside of the foot ring. Glaze covers the surface, unevenly in places, except on the rim of the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 21.4 cm
Weight: 3426 cm
Width: 38.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
Circa
1699
CE
Exterior Lower Body
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
Interior Lower Body
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
Exterior Foot
composed of
pigment
( black)
Base
Diameter 14.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 38.5 cm
Exterior Base
colourless
Glaze
white
Slip
Fritware
Throwing
: Fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in a white slip painted in blue with black outlines under a colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Slip-coating
Inscription present: painted under the glaze
Accession number: C.175-1935
Primary reference Number: 72561
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
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/72561 Accessed: 2024-11-06 01:42:21
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-06 01:42:21|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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