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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, moulded and incised under a turquoise glaze
Shape: carinated bowl with straight sided upper section and slightly everted rim, pointed at the terminus of moulded ribs. Sits on a foot ring base
Exterior: Ribbed columns, incised with horizontal lines (except one), separate four panels featuring central moulded bosses of a human face or teardrop motif containing palmette designs. Incised scrolling lines forming roughly drawn foliage patterns frame this moulded decoration. Glaze covers the surface to a point just below the carination, but with a limited number of pock marks
Interior: undecorated, except for glaze containing a fleck of blue at one point on the upper body
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased from the Glaisher Fund
Height: 12 cm
Weight: 581 g
Width: 18.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century-13th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
Circa
1258
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, covering the surface to a point just below the carination, but with a limited number of pock marks.)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 17.7 cm
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Moulding : Fritware, moulded and incised under a turquoise glaze
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge, a black rectangular border printed around the edge
Inscription present: hand written in pencil
Accession number: C.93-1935
Primary reference Number: 76403
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD.59
Old number: BP.133
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/76403 Accessed: 2024-11-25 16:20:15
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76403
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 16:20:15|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76403
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_93_1935_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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