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Potter: Unknown
Fritware coated in three glaze colours painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in blue, turquoise and white glaze, painted with lustre
Shape: conical bowl on a foot ring
Interior: radiating panels of four blue, two turquoise and two white glazed triangles. The blue and white panels are painted with lustre; in the form of scrolls that are barely visible on the blue background, possibly due to an accident of firing, and seated figures reserved on triangular lustre panels that are fully visible on the white background.
Exterior: a lustre band is painted on the rim. The body is coated in a blue glaze which is thicker around the rim and upper body and which terminates on the foot ring.
History note: S.M. Franck & Co., 25 Camomile Street, London EC from whom purchased for £16 by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 8.5 cm
Weight: 357 g
Width: 21.1 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 (1911-12-31) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Late 12th Century
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1200
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, thicker around the rim and upper body, terminates on the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( blue, turquoise, white, covers surface unevenly)
oxide colours
( lustre)
Exterior Rim
composed of
painting overglaze
( lustre)
Rim
Diameter 21.1 cm
Base
Diameter 8.5 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in blue, turquoise and white glaze painted with lustre
Inscription present: hand written in black directly onto the vessel surface
Accession number: C.69-1911
Primary reference Number: 75835
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75835 Accessed: 2023-05-30 23:10:38
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75835
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-30 23:10:38|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-75835
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/C_69_1911_281_29.jpg"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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Accession Number: E.P.467
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Accession Number: E.P.260
Accession Number: E.277.1932
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