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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware fragment, incised through a cream slip under a thin yellow glaze
Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze
Shape: base and part of flaring foot ring
Interior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, on the base two fish with incised straight mouths and eyes, gills, fins, pointed forked tails and hatched furry-looking outlines swim around each other, their bodies enhanced with an extra layer of slip creating a relief effect and a paler tone under the glaze
Exterior: yellow glaze coating applied over a cream slip on the body, without slip in the foot ring, undecorated
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 4.6 cm
Weight: 180 g
Width: 9.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1919) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Foot Ring
Diameter 5.4 cm
Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze
Accession number: C.4.12-1919
Primary reference Number: 74799
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sherd" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74799 Accessed: 2024-11-22 14:39:00
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