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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1200 - circa 1399; Classification(s): fritware (stonepaste), candlestick, moulding, fritware, mould made and painted in blue under a turquoise glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Raphael, Oscar C., 1905-04-24, Oscar Raphael bequest, 1941, received, 1946 [OC.171-1946]
Description: 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. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | fritware (stonepaste) Unknown candlestick | Temporal: | name=13th-14th Century; start=1200; end=1399 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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