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Potter: Unknown
Fritware pierced and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Fritware, possibly wheel thrown, pierced and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl, flaring slightly in the neck towards a plain rim, sits on a low foot ring.
Interior: under the rim a frieze of teardrop leaves are painted in black containing diagonal lines or blue. On the body, lobbed arcading outlined in black or blue contains, alternately, pierced crosses or black cross hatching; blue spandrels contain black pin wheel circles. In the roundel, a floral spray is painted in blue with black outlines. Glaze covers the surface unevenly and is slightly cracked and pitted on the roundel.
Exterior: decoration mirrors that on the interior body. Glaze terminates on the lower body and covers the upper body unevenly.
History note: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 103.
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 10.2 cm
Weight: 548 g
Width: 20.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1911-03-20) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Qajar
19th century
Circa
1800
-
Circa
1899
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( colourless, covers the surface unevenly and is slightly cracked and pitted on the roundel)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( colourless, terminates on the lower body and covers the upper body unevenly)
Rim
Diameter 20.5 cm
Base
Diameter 7.4 cm
Upper Body
Throwing : Fritware, possibly wheel thrown, pierced and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edges
Accession number: C.32-1911
Primary reference Number: 74515
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 (2023) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74515 Accessed: 2023-06-01 14:22:24
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74515
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-01 14:22:24|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-74515
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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Accession Number: E.P.467
Accession Number: E.P.240
Accession Number: E.P.260
Accession Number: E.277.1932
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