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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1300 - circa 1399; Classification(s): fritware (stonepaste), bowl, throwing, fritware, with large iron rich inclusion visible on the base, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze; Acquisition: given by Harris, Ann, 2003-06-09, Given in memory of Sir Gordon and Lady Sutherland by their daughters, Ann, Kerstin and Mary [C.5-2003]
Description: fritware, with large iron rich inclusion visible on the base, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Shape: hemispherical bowl on a narrow, low foot ring.
Interior: the rim is dotted with blue. On the body a whorl of stylised fish swim around a central rosette, bisected by an ?S? shape, both are outlined in black and partially coloured with blue.
Exterior: a stylised petal design comprises a series of vertical and horizontal lines. Glaze runs over the surface to a point on the lower body, leaving areas of underglaze paint uncovered. | 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) bowl Unknown | Temporal: | name=14th Century; start=1300; 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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