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Potter: Unknown
Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black and white slip under a white or clear glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a low foot ring and a flat, T-shaped rim.
Interior: on the rim a diagonal black stripes and blue dots are painted. The body is painted with white slip outlined in black and reserved on a blue background. On the upper body a concentric frieze of flowers are painted, while on the lower body fish swim in a whorl around a blue rosette.
Exterior: under a white glaze on the body, a frieze of diagonal blue and black lines and dots is painted above blue arcading, possibly imitating lotus petal designs. Glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 405 g
Width: 18.4 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: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
Early 20th century
Circa
1900
CE
-
Circa
1915
CE
Imitates Sultanabad style
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( clear)
slip
( white)
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 18.4 cm
Base
Diameter 6.3 cm
Exterior Body
Throwing : Pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black and white slip under a white or clear glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top and right hand edge
Accession number: C.85-1935
Primary reference Number: 76228
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.146
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/76228 Accessed: 2023-03-21 05:16:54
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76228
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-21 05:16:54|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-76228
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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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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