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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black under a transparent turquoise glaze.
Shape: conical bowl with a gentle carination in the neck leading onto a bead rim. Sits on a low, wide foot ring base.
Interior: the rim is painted black. On the neck tear drop shaped cartouche contain dotted ovals filled with fish eye patterns, painted on a background of zigzag lines. On the base a scalloped line encloses a rosette with further zigzag lines on the petals and in the background. Glaze pools in the base obscuring the decoration.
Exterior: a frieze of roughly drawn arabesques and cartouche with a central line on a scrolling background dominate the body. On the lower body a narrow band of stylised fishes are painted within concentric two black lines. Glaze pools slightly on the lower body and base, a thin covering is present on the underside of the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 11 cm
Weight: 1157 g
Width: 27.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1260
-
Circa
1399
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, transparent)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, pools slightly on the lower body and base, a thin covering is present on the underside of the foot ring)
Base
Diameter 12 cm
Rim
Diameter 27.4 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black under a transparent turquoise glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: written directly onto object surface
Accession number: C.76-1935
Primary reference Number: 76013
Old number: BP.124
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/76013 Accessed: 2024-12-27 22:59:08
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76013
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-27 22:59:08|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76013
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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