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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1530 - 1560; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, bowl, throwing, Pale red earthenware, covered with off-white tin-glaze. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.; Acquisition: given by de Pass, Alfred A., 1933, Given by Alfred A. De Pass [C.135-1933]
Description: Shallow bowl on low foot. Pale red earthenware, covered with off-white tin-glaze. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Circular with a wavy rim, the curved sides moulded with alternately wide and narrow flutes radiating from a circular convex area in the middle; low trumpet-shaped foot.
In the middle, framed by two concentric blue circles, is a bust of a woman in profile to left. She wears a cap and dress, both painted in yellow and orange, the shoulders of the latter decorated with foliated scrolls. Behind her is a scroll inscribed in blue, `NIN/NCEN/TIA.B'; the background is green. The sides are decorated with blue foliated scrolls with yellow and orange flowers, interrupted at the top by a stylised plant, and, at the bottom, by a bunch of fruit and foliage. The rim is yellow. | 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=mid 16th century; start=1530; end=1560 | 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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