IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17519
accession number:	C.420-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 10 November 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: calcareous earthenware, mould made, painted in black under a transparent turquoise, slightly pitted glaze with spots of blue on the surface
Shape: hexagonal tile with straight sides
Upper surface: a black radiating geometric design of lozenges focusing on a six pointed star. The star and alternate lozenges contain a central dot, which is blue rather than black in two instances
Underside: undecorated
object type: earthenware painted in black under a turquoise glaze spotted with blue
title:	tile

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transfered from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17519





TECHNIQUES
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calcareous earthenware, mould made, painted in black under a transparent turquoise, slightly pitted glaze with spots of blue on the surface
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1300 - 1499
creation date earliest:	1300
creation date latest:	1499
culture:	14th Century-15th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 1.6

dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 16

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 411



CITATIONS
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The Paysage as Funerary Imagery in the Timurid Period
Islamic Tiles
The Art of the Islamic Tile
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