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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1350 - 1425; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, bowl, throwing, Pinkish buff earthenware. The upper part of the exterior is lead-glazed; the interior and rim of the exterior are tin-glazed off-white. Painted in very dark manganese appearing black, black and copper-green.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon., 1926, F. Leverton Harris Bequest [C.73-1927]
Description: Pinkish buff earthenware. The upper part of the exterior is lead-glazed; the interior and rim of the exterior are tin-glazed off-white. Painted in very dark manganese appearing black, black and copper-green.
Shape 40. Circular with deep sides, rising upwards in a gentle convex curve to the widest point and then upwards steeply to the rim, which curves inwards; the base is flat and projects slightly.
Inside, within two black concentric circles, there is a knot with green squiggles on the arms and in the spaces between them, black Vs and green trefoils with two black wedge-shaped marks above each. Below the rim are a broad green band and a narrow black band. | 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: | bowl tin-glazed earthenware Unknown | Temporal: | name=14th Century; start=1350; end=1425 | 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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