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Potter: Unknown
Fritware incised or painted in blue and black under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, mould made, incised or painted in blue and black under a transparent turquoise glaze.
Shape : lobbed hemispherical but irregular bowl, imitating a repousse metal design, with a straight neck. Sits on a slightly flaring foot ring.
Interior: on the neck black Arabic script reserved in blue. All remaining decoration is painted in black. The repousse shapes of the body are outlined with lines and filled with three rows of oval cartouches containing crosses. The cartouches closest to the base terminate in a vertical line. In the roundel a harpy is painted on a background of scrolls but this decoration is partially obscured by pooled glaze.
Exterior: on the neck a black band is incised with Arabic script. On the body decoration is identical to that on the interior except that blue, rather than black is used to outline the repousse design. A broad black band is painted on the foot ring. Glaze runs unevenly over the foot ring.
History note: Bought from Garabed, May 1927
Bequeathed by Oscar Raphael, 1941, received 1946
Height: 12 cm
Weight: 449 g
Width: 19.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
1220
CE
Exterior Neck
composed of
slip
( black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( turquoise, pooled in base)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, runs unevenly over the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 18.2 cm
Base
Diameter 7.6 cm
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, incised or painted in blue and black under a transparent turquoise glaze
Inscription present: incised through black slip in a concentric frieze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label serrated on the upper and lower edges
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Inscription present: written directly onto the object surface
Accession number: OC.168-1946
Primary reference Number: 77604
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/77604 Accessed: 2024-11-05 07:48:03
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 07:48:03|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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