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Earthenware fragment, incised and carved through a cream slip under a thin yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of dark brown pigment
Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of dark brown pigment
Shape: base, flaring foot ring and small part of lower body of a rounded vessel
Interior: over a cream slip, an incised circle around the base is segmented horizontally one third of the way up, below the line left undecorated and above the line a blazon design of a pair of polo sticks, depicted on a background painted with dark brown pigment, the whole lightly coated with a thin yellow glaze
Exterior: thin layer of yellow glaze over an unevenly applied cream slip allowing areas of darker body fabric to show through
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 4.8 cm
Weight: 383 g
Width: 11.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1919) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
pigment
( dark brown)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow, thin layer)
Foot Ring
Diameter 6.9 cm
Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of dark brown pigment
Accession number: C.4.1-1919
Primary reference Number: 74798
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) "Sherd" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74798 Accessed: 2024-04-19 08:13:57
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University of Cambridge}}
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