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Earthenware fragment, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with extra layers of slip and areas of brown pigment
Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with extra layers of slip and areas of brown pigment
Shape: base, part of foot ring and part of lower body of a hemispherical vessel
Interior: over a cream slip, a narrow incised circular band around the base, coloured with unevenly applied brown pigment, encloses a circle divided horizontally one quarter of the way from the top, coloured with brown pigment above the line and below it, incised with a cup blazon coloured with brown pigment, over a ground enhanced with an extra layer of cream slip creating a relief effect and paler tone under the glaze, the lower body undecorated and the whole under a layer of yellow glaze
Exterior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, the underside of the foot ring also partially slipped and glazed, otherwise undecorated
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 7 cm
Weight: 337 g
Width: 15.3 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
pigment
( brown)
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Foot Ring
Diameter 7.7 cm
Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with extra layers of slip and areas of brown pigment
Accession number: C.4.4-1919
Primary reference Number: 74864
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/74864 Accessed: 2024-04-25 00:08:00
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-25 00:08:00|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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