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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, tall straight 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 depicting a cup blazon also coloured with a dark brown pigment, over a ground of a thicker layer of cream slip creating a paler tone under the glaze, the whole coated in a yellow glaze
Exterior: yellow glaze over a cream slip, unevenly applied on the foot ring exterior and underside, undecorated.
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 6.4 cm
Weight: 314 g
Width: 13.9 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)
Foot Ring
Diameter 8.8 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 dark and light brown pigment
Accession number: C.4.6-1919
Primary reference Number: 74896
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/74896 Accessed: 2024-12-22 22:20:35
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 22:20:35|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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