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Potter: Unknown
Buff fritware with carved decoration under a green glaze
Buff fritware with carved decoration under a green glaze; probably wheel thrown in sections.
Shape: Finely potted plain rim and cylindrical neck flaring toward the mouth. More coarsely potted ovoid body sits on a low foot ring base; stub remains of a handle on the shoulder.
Exterior: A freeze of carved decoration on the shoulder incorporates Arabic script (kufic) which is interspersed with an abstract vegetal pattern. Green translucent, crazed glaze covers the vessel surface from the rim to the lower body where it gathers in drips around the base.
Interior: Green glaze is applied to the upper neck and runs down towards the body.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 20.4 cm
Weight: 550 g
Width: 14 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Fatimid
Circa
1100
CE
-
1199
CE
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( crazed, green, translucent)
Interior Neck/rim
composed of
glaze
( crazed, translucent, green)
Base
Diameter 6 cm
Rim
Diameter 7 cm
Exterior Shoulder
Throwing : Fritware, wheel-thrown, carved with translucent green glaze
Inscription present: foliated kufic script in a frieze around upper body
Inscription present: rectangular paper tie on label
Inscription present: written on scrap of paper torn away from larger sheet
Accession number: C.411-1991
Primary reference Number: 28932
Packing number: ISCER 996
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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