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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, mould made and painted in blue under a turquoise glaze
Shape: an eleven-sided heavily fluted flaring body leading to a sharply carinated shoulder with protruding nodules on the drip tray. The socket comprises a nine-sided cylindrical neck with a flaring, out-tuned rim on which lozenges are moulded.
Exterior: the fluting is painted with vertical panels of blue, as are the nodules on the shoulder and lozenges on the rim. Glaze runs over the lower body forming droplets around the base.
Interior: socket is thickly glazed but body only covered with thin glaze.
Oscar Raphael bequest, 1941, received, 1946
Height: 18 cm
Weight: 864 g
Width: 18.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
13th Century-14th Century
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Skeumorph of a metal form
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( turquoise, runs over the lower body forming droplets around the base)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, socket is thickly glazed but body only covered with thin glaze)
Base
Diameter 18.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 8.5 cm
Moulding : Fritware, mould made and painted in blue under a turquoise glaze
Inscription present: small circular label
Accession number: OC.171-1946
Primary reference Number: 77607
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Candlestick" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77607 Accessed: 2024-11-25 07:17:10
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