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Unknown
(Potter)
Fritware coated in white glaze painted in lustre and brown paint
Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown and painted in brown pigment and ustre under or over a white glaze.
Shape: conical bowl with a low foot ring and a plain rim
Interior: on the rim a dentillated pattern is painted in lustre. A dense shoal of fish is painted on the body, swimming in a whorl around the roundel which contains a rosette with overlapping petals. Both fish and rosette are painted in reserve against a lustred background into which scrolls are incised on the body.
Exterior: a dentillated pattern, of larger scale than that on the interior, is painted on the rim. On the body ‘ear muff’ style palmettes are painted in reserve against a lustred background, below which a pair of lustre concentric lines mark the edge of decoration. Glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring.
History note: Label indicated probable purchase from Kelekian
Oscar Raphael Bequest
Height: 12 cm
Weight: 3208 g
Width: 45.7 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: Bequeathed
(1946)
by
Raphael, Oscar C.
Mid 13th-mid 14th Century
Circa
1260
CE
-
Circa
1350
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( brown, under the glaze)
oxide colours
( brownish lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( brownish lustre)
glaze
( white)
Base
Diameter 22.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 45.7 cm
pinkish buff Fritware
Throwing : Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown and painted in brown pigment and lustre under or over a white glaze
Inscription present: circular paper label
Inscription present: paper label in the shape of an elongated hexagon
Accession number: OC.166-1946
Primary reference Number: 77602
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 (2022)
"Dish"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77602 Accessed: 2022-06-25 03:10:59
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