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Potter: Unknown
Fritware; interior painted in blue over a white ground and under a transparent uncoloured glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown.
Shape: carinated bowl with a collared neck, sits on a low, flaring foot ring
Interior: painted in dark blue over a white ground beneath a transparent uncoloured glaze. On the rim a blue line is painted. On the body blue lines radiate from a central circle.
Exterior: covered with an uneven incomplete glaze with a pale turquoise-green tinge that covers the surface unevenly and terminates above the bottom of the foot ring. The underside of the foot is unglazed.
History note: Given by Lady Lee
Given by Lady Lee, in memory of her husband Sir Frank Lee
Height: 7.5 cm
Weight: 229 g
Width: 15.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1971) by Lee, Lady
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( dark blue)
glaze
( uncoloured, transparent)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( pale turquoise-green)
Rim
Diameter 15.4 cm
Base
Diameter 6.3 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown. Glazed inside and out. Interior painted in dark blue over a white ground under a transparent uncoloured glaze. Exterior glazed with an uneven incomplete glaze with a pale turquoise-green tinge.
Inscription present: Hand written in pencil directly onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.3-1971
Primary reference Number: 74482
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/74482 Accessed: 2024-11-22 00:45:13
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74482
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 00:45:13|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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