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Potter: Unknown
Frtiware decorated with slip and painted in three colours under a white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, decorated with slip to create relief and painted in blue, turquoise and black all under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl on a narrow foot ring base
Interior: a black band is painted on the rim. On the neck a frieze of white or blue curled leaves are painted on a black dotted ground. On the body a radiating design of pointed triangular panels are filled with turquoise or blue curled leaves, alternately reserved in blue or on a black dotted ground.
Exterior: a black band is painted on the rim. On the body blue and black dots and lines are enclosed on the lower section by concentric black bands.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 8.6 cm
Weight: 320 g
Width: 17.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
13th Century, Mid-14th Century, Mid#
Circa
1260
-
Circa
1350
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( transparent, white, covers the surface to the lower body)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, turquoise and black)
slip
( to create relief effect)
Rim
Diameter 17.9 cm
Base
Diameter 5.2 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, decorated with slip to create relief and painted in blue, turquoise and black all under a transparent white 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.83-1935
Primary reference Number: 76196
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.24
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/76196 Accessed: 2024-11-22 04:58:03
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76196
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-22 04:58:03|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76196
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_83_1935_281_29.jpg"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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