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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1525 - 1540; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, bowl, tin-glazing, Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall with blue smudges on the reverse. Painted in dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon., 1926, F. Leverton Harris Bequest [C.111-1927]
Description: Shallow bowl. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall with blue smudges on the reverse. Painted in dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white.
Circular with shallow gently curved sides.
A bust of a young woman facing front, her head inclined to her left and her eyes cast downwards to her left. Over her blonde hair she wears a turban-like cap which is decorated with orange trophies and has an oval green jewel at centre front. Round her neck she has a string of orange beads and a thin black necklace which disappears between her breasts. Her gown has green and orange sleeves and a dark-blue decollet? bodice with incised decoration and a white edging. Projecting on either side of her head is an elaborately coiled scroll inscribed `DIA/NORA' and decorated with formal plant motifs in dark blue. The background is blue. | 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=16th century; start=1525; end=1540 | 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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