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Potter: Unknown
Red brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip incised under a green glaze.
Shape: carinated, bi-conical bowl with a square rim and sitting on a disc base.
Interior: covered with a white slip incised with roughly drawn scrolls on the neck and, radiating from the base, four stylised trees on the body.
Exterior: on the neck a frieze of curving vertical lines is incised through a white slip. The slip and glaze run unevenly over the carination to a point on the upper body.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 8 cm
Weight: 520 g
Width: 18.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Late-15th Century
Circa
1250
-
Circa
1499
Possibly
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
glaze
( green)
slip
( white)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( green)
slip
( white)
Rim
Diameter 17.9 cm
Base
Diameter 6.4 cm
Throwing : Red brown earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip incised under a green glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: a rectangular paper label underlying other labels
Inscription present: hand written in black directly onto the vessel surface
Accession number: C.50-1935
Primary reference Number: 75321
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: 159
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75321 Accessed: 2024-12-22 23:14:06
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75321
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 23:14:06|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-75321
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_50_1935_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
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