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Potter: Unknown
Fritware incised and painted in black and blue under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, incised and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Shape: multi-sided jug with a sharply angled mouth and rolled rim. A strap handle is applied to the body; the base is flat.
Exterior: the rim and handle are painted with blue and in the latter outlined in black. On the body vertical friezes alternate between incised chevrons on a white ground and interlocking hooked leaves reserved in blue and outlined in black. Glaze covers lower body unevenly leaving small areas uncovered.
Interior: glazed but otherwise undecorated.
Given by Sir Herbert Thompson
Height: 11 cm
Weight: 163 g
Width: 9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1920) by Thompson, Henry Francis Herbert, Sir, Bart
Late 17th or early 18th century
Circa
1690
-
1738
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
Exerior
composed of
glaze
( colourless)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( colourless)
Rim
Diameter 7.3 cm
Base
Diameter 7.4 cm
Exterior Body
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, incised and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Accession number: C.41-1920
Primary reference Number: 74958
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 (2023) "Jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74958 Accessed: 2023-06-07 13:39:45
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-07 13:39:45|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
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