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Potter: Unknown
Vase. Earthenware, covered in a cream slip, and decorated in iron-brown and cream crackle glaze. The ovoid body has sloping shoulders, a narrow neck and widely flaring mouth. The body tapers to the flat, unglazed foot and a flat, recessed base with cream crackle glaze around the inner foot and a splash in the centre of the base. The body is covered in a cream slip and decorated with a central border in iron-brown of three cross-hatch panels and three circles containing scrolls. The border is between iron-brown lines and a single blue line with a double blue line border above and below, under a greyish glaze. The lower half of the body has a mottled cream/grey tint and pitting.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 16.5 cm
Height: 31.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
19th Century
Circa
1870
-
1900
Japanese, Kyoto
Glaze
composed of
glaze
( grey)
Body
Decoration
Inscription present: rectangular white, torn illegibly
Accession number: C.743-1991
Primary reference Number: 21754
Old object number: CHICER/191
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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