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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with carved black slip under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a black slip, carved under a turquoise glaze
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a slightly everted rim, sits on a foot ring.
Interior: a frieze of palmette leaves on the body radiate from four part rosette on the base. Cross hatch lozenges fills the area between the rosette petals.
Exterior: the body is coated with glaze which has pooled slightly in places around the foot ring.
Bequeathed by T.H. Riches
Height: 8.8 cm
Weight: 415 g
Width: 20.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Riches, Thomas Henry
12th Century
Circa
1100
-
Circa
1199
Interior
composed of
slip
( black, carved)
glaze
( turquoise)
Exterior
composed of
turquoise
( turquoise, pooled slightly in places around the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 20.4 cm
Base
Diameter 7.7 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a black slip, carved under a turquoise glaze
Accession number: C.38-1950
Primary reference Number: 74737
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/74737 Accessed: 2024-11-14 22:29:27
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74737
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-14 22:29:27|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-74737
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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