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Pottery: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, probably mould made, painted in red slip, blue, emerald green and black under a colourless, slightly crazed, glaze
Shape: segmental bowl with a plain rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: on the cavetto, enclosed by concentric black lines, a black meandering scroll with blue leaves and green and red stylised flowers. In the roundel, radiating from a central red rosette and on a background of black wave scrolls, a symmetrical pattern of blue and red leaf shapes, thickly outlined, interspersed with green and red flower heads.
Exterior: a frieze of rosettes in blue and green with black outlines. The glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring.
T.H. Riches Bequest, 1950
Height: 6 cm
Weight: 981 g
Width: 31.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950-06-27) by Riches, Thomas Henry
16th Century, Late
Circa
1585
CE
-
Circa
1590
CE
Wave-scroll ground type
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue and green with black outlines)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red slip, blue, emerald green and black)
Base
Diameter 18.7 cm
Rim
Diameter 31.1 cm
colourless, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, probably mould made, painted in red slip, blue, emerald green and black under a colourless, slightly crazed, glaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.21-1950
Primary reference Number: 73133
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73133 Accessed: 2024-11-05 05:37:11
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