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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a white glaze painted in polychrome
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with red, blue, turquoise, brown, black and flesh tones.
Shape: bi-conical bowl with a plain rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted with a dentailated pattern in blue. On the neck a floriated blue kufic inscription is surrounded by turquoise leaves and red dots. On the body, a frieze of winged sphinx and griffin are painted in polychrome, with each animal separated by a frond dotted with grey and red. On the base arabesques radiate from a central rosette, all painted in blue, red and turquoise.
Exterior: on the upper body, enclosed by two red concentric lines, a black cursive inscription. Glaze covers the surface, terminates unevenly on the lower body.
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 7 cm
Weight: 258 g
Width: 16.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1923) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1170
CE
-
Circa
1220
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( red, black)
glaze
( white, covers the surface, terminates unevenly on the lower body)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( red, blue, turquoise, brown, black and flesh tones)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 16.7 cm
Base
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in white glaze painted with red, blue, turquoise, brown, black and flesh tones
Accession number: C.9-1923
Primary reference Number: 76364
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/76364 Accessed: 2024-11-05 03:34:36
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76364
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 03:34:36|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76364
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/aa15/C_9_1923_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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