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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in three colours under a colourless glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a colourless glaze.
Shape: bead rim and slightly angular neck descending via a carination onto a concave cylindrical body sitting on a narrow foot ring
Exterior: the rim is painted black and black pseudo calligraphy is painted on the shoulder. Bands of black curled leaves, on a black and blue dotted ground separated by black lines, are painted on the neck and in vertical friezes on the body, where they alternate with blue or turquoise panels. Pigment from those panels has run onto the lower body, which is decorated with radiating blue lines. Glaze covers the surface to the lower body and runs unevenly into the foot ring.
Interior: covered in a colourless glaze, otherwise undecorated.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 26.2 cm
Weight: 1092 g
Width: 14.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
14th Century
Circa
1300
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise, black)
glaze
( colourless, covers the surface to the lower body and runs unevenly into the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( colourless)
Rim
Diameter 10 cm
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a colourless glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top, bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: written directly onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.74-1935
Primary reference Number: 75962
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.158
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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