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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1900 - circa 1915; Classification(s): glazed earthenware, bowl, throwing, pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black and white slip under a white or clear glaze; Acquisition: bought by Brangwyn, Frank, 1905-04-18, Purchased with the Glaisher Fund [C.85-1935]
Description: pinkish earthenware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black and white slip under a white or clear glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with a low foot ring and a flat, T-shaped rim.
Interior: on the rim a diagonal black stripes and blue dots are painted. The body is painted with white slip outlined in black and reserved on a blue background. On the upper body a concentric frieze of flowers are painted, while on the lower body fish swim in a whorl around a blue rosette.
Exterior: under a white glaze on the body, a frieze of diagonal blue and black lines and dots is painted above blue arcading, possibly imitating lotus petal designs. Glaze runs unevenly onto the foot ring. | 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 Unknown glazed earthenware | Temporal: | name=early 20th century; start=1900; end=1915 | 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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