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Cream fritware, incised and moulded under a turquoise glaze
Cream fritware, moulded and possibly finished on a wheel, with incised and moulded decoration on body; under a highly crazed turquoise glaze.
Shape: bottle with wide lobbed mouth descending via a straight sided neck onto a spherical body which is seated on a low foot ring.
Exterior: Lobbed mouth is further defined by incising in the indents. A slight flange marks the joint between the mouth and neck; the neck is decorated with three concentric circles at the mid-point. The uppermost body is decorated with a pair of carved or moulded concentric lines separated by a bead pattern. The main body is gadrooned with three studs running in a vertical line on the raised areas. Turquoise opaque glaze coats the vessel surface to the lower body.
Interior: only the mouth and very upper sections of the neck are visible, these areas are coated with the same turquoise opaque glaze that is present on the vessel exterior.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 13.8 cm
Height: 20.9 cm
Weight: 518 g
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
1199
CE
Decoration
composed of
glaze
( opaque turquoise)
Base
Diameter 5.9 cm
Rim
Diameter 6 cm
Moulding
: Cream fritware incised, moulded and probably moulded then finished on the wheel, coated with an opaque turquoise glaze.
Wheel-finishing
Inscription present: circular label with serrated edge
Inscription present: rectangular paper label label attached with white string
Accession number: C.409-1991
Primary reference Number: 28923
Packing number: ISCER 614
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/28923 Accessed: 2024-12-22 21:01:52
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