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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Goblet

13th century or 14th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hemispherical cup on a small spreading foot. Red earthenware body covered with a white slip and pale greenish glaze. The exterior decorated with a band of alternating trangular motifs in white slip on the clay ground. Decoration on the interior is carved through the slip and consists of a central checquerboard from which radiate six pointed lozenges containing a foliate motif between which are circular lozenges with spiky edges.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with incised decoration
Brief description
Red earthenware covered with a white slip and with incised decoration under a pale greenish glaze. Byzantine, 13th or 14th century.
Physical description
Hemispherical cup on a small spreading foot. Red earthenware body covered with a white slip and pale greenish glaze. The exterior decorated with a band of alternating trangular motifs in white slip on the clay ground. Decoration on the interior is carved through the slip and consists of a central checquerboard from which radiate six pointed lozenges containing a foliate motif between which are circular lozenges with spiky edges.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register height: 8.6cm
  • Taken from register width: 12.2cm
Style
Credit line
Bought
Collection
Accession number
C.130-1980

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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