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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted in red slip, blue, green and black under a colourless glaze
Shape: segmental bowl with a flange rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: on the rim a rock wave pattern is painted in blue, black and green. On the cavetto, enclosing the roundel, a frieze of green waves and red dashes is painted. In the roundel a rumi style arabesques are highlighted with blue and green and reserved in red slip.
Exterior: on the body blue stylised waves and fleurs de lys are outlined in black. Glaze is pitted and covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring.
T. H. Riches Bequest
Height: 5.5 cm
Weight: 1012 g
Width: 30.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Riches, Thomas Henry
16th Century, Late
Circa
1580
CE
-
Circa
1585
CE
Abstract style
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue and black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red slip, blue, green and black)
Base
Diameter 16.7 cm
Rim
Diameter 30.7 cm
colourless, pitted and covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, mould made, painted in red slip, blue, green and black under a colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: square paper label
Accession number: C.27-1950
Primary reference Number: 73960
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) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73960 Accessed: 2024-11-05 03:31:39
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University of Cambridge}}
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