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Earthenware decorated with coloured glazes separated by a black slip, gilded
Calcareous earthenware, with designs outlined in black slip and coloured with white, blue and turquoise pitted glaze and red brown slip, with small areas of gilding
Shape: pentagonal tile with slightly bevelled edges
Upper side: colours are separated by a thin black line of slip. A turquoise border frames a white palmette overlying a central gilded, polychrome rosette and pendant turquoise buds, all reserved in blue.
Under side: undecorated but with patches of plaster
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Depth: 2 cm
Height: 14.1 cm
Weight: 386 g
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century, Late-15th Century, Mid
Circa
1375
CE
-
Circa
1450
CE
Upper Surface
composed of
slip
( black, used to separate colours)
glaze
( blue, turquoise, white)
slip
( red-brown)
Decoration
composed of
gold leaf
( in discreet areas)
buff-coloured Earthenware
Moulding : Calcareous earthenware, with designs outlined in black slip and coloured with white, blue and turquoise pitted glaze and red brown slip, with small areas of gilding
Accession number: C.565-1991
Primary reference Number: 17553
Packing number: ISCER 554
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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