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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, mould made, washed with blue and painted with white slip on the exterior under a pitted colourless glaze
Shape: pear shaped body with a short spout on the upper section, collared neck flaring into a flanged rim, sits on a low foot ring
Exterior: on the rim and lower neck a criss-cross pattern is painted. On the body lobbed medallions contain trelliswork in an arabesque form. Glaze covers the base except for the rim; the underside of the foot ring is not slipped but covered with a colourless glaze.
Interior: visible sections not slipped but covered with a colourless glaze
History note: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 120, sold with another object for 5.5 guineas
Given by The Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 28.1 cm
Weight: 1252 g
Width: 19.3 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
17th Century
Circa
1600
-
Circa
1699
Exterior
composed of
slip
( except the underside of the foot ring)
slip
( white, painted to form surface design)
Base
Diameter 11 cm
Rim
Diameter 6.9 cm
colourless, pitted
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, mould made, washed with blue and painted with white slip on the exterior under a pitted colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge on all but the top edge
Inscription present: painted directly onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.33-1911
Primary reference Number: 74564
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) "Qalyan base" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74564 Accessed: 2023-06-01 12:33:05
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Qalyan base
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-01 12:33:05|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-74564
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