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Potter: Unknown (Probably)
Fritware painted in blue under a colourless glaze
Fritware, painted with blue under a crazed colourless glaze
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a narrow foot ring
Interior: four blue lines are painted at regular intervals. Impurity in the glaze has resulted in a hole created during firing.
Exterior: glaze runs over the surface to a mid-point on the body.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 5.5 cm
Weight: 146 g
Width: 14 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century-13th Century, Early
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1250
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( colourless, crazed, runs over the surface to a mid-point on the body)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( colourless, crazed)
pigment
Rim
Diameter 14 cm
Base
Diameter 4.8 cm
Throwing : Fritware, painted with blue under a crazed colourless glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.68-1935
Primary reference Number: 75818
Old number: BP.109
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/75818 Accessed: 2024-12-23 07:59:51
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75818
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-23 07:59:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-75818
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