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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware with a white glaze painted with lustre
Pinkish buff earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with a yellow lustre.
Shape: conical bowl with slightly out-turned rim sitting on a low foot ring.
Interior: on the rim crescents and dots are painted above Arabic inscriptions on the bottom left and right hand edge. Dominating the bowl a stylised peacock is painted with bi-partite plumage on the head and ‘eyes’ covering the body and a section of the tail.
Exterior: concentric circles are painted, with the inner circle containing wavey lines painted on a background of dotted lines.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 4.2 cm
Weight: 108 g
Width: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1905-04-18) by Brangwyn, Frank
10th Century
Circa
900
CE
-
Circa
999
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( white)
oxide colours
( yellow lustre)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white)
oxide colours
( yellow lustre)
Rim
Diameter 12.3 cm
Base
Diameter 4.4 cm
Throwing : Pinkish buff earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white glaze painted with a yellow lustre
Inscription present: three Arabic inscriptions
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated upper edge
Accession number: C.66-1935
Primary reference Number: 75770
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.97
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/75770 Accessed: 2024-11-02 21:38:50
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-02 21:38:50|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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