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Earthenware fragment, incised and carved through a cream slip under a thin yellow glaze and enhanced with extra layers of slip and areas of dark and light 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 dark and light brown pigment
Shape: base, part of foot ring and part of lower body of a vessel
Interior: over a cream slip, a narrow incised circular band around the base, coloured with unevenly applied dark brown pigment, encloses a circle divided horizontally one third of the way from the top, coloured with a light brown pigment above the line and below it, incised with a cup blazon coloured with light 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: thin layer of yellow glaze over an unevenly applied cream slip allowing areas of darker body fabric to show through, the underside of the foot ring also partially slipped and glazed
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 5 cm
Weight: 208 g
Width: 12.3 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
slip
( cream)
pigment
( light and dark brown)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
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 dark and light brown pigment
Accession number: C.4.5-1919
Primary reference Number: 74884
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/74884 Accessed: 2024-11-25 21:04:12
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|title=Sherd
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 21:04:12|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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