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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1400 - 1450; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, fragment, tin-glazing, Pale cream earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in pale and dark blue, green, yellow, orange and brownish-red.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Harris, Frederick Leverton, 1926 [C.133-1927]
Description: Irregularly shaped five-sided fragment of the rim and well of a plate. Pale cream earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in pale and dark blue, green, yellow, orange and brownish-red.
In the middle, part of a border comprising rectangles crossed diagonally in blue separated by two yellow lines flanking a green. On the shallow side of the well dark blue scallops between wide pale blue bands. On the rim, orange scales with a dark blue plant motif on each, and round the outer edge dark blue radiating lines over a pale blue band. On the back parts of three blue outlined leaves with a longtitudinal vein and slanting reddish-brown or yellow lateral veins; and a few green strokes. | 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: | tin-glazed earthenware Unknown fragment | Temporal: | name=15th century; start=1400; end=1450 | 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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