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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue, black and turquoise under a colourless glaze
Fritware, probably mould made, painted in blue, black and turquoise under a colourless glaze
Shape: hexagonal tile with straight edges
Upper surface: around the edges the remnants of a black and turquoise border is evident. Painted in the centre, a black scroll is surrounded by blue floral sprays that include fern leaves.
Lower surface: undecorated except for remnants 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: 1.2 cm
Height: 18.5 cm
Weight: 509 g
Width: 16.2 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th century
Circa
1400
CE
-
Circa
1499
CE
Upper Surface composed of pigment ( black, blue, turquoise) glaze ( colourless, crazed)
Moulding : Fritware, probably mould made, painted in blue, black and turquoise under a crazed colourless glaze
Accession number: C.549E-1991
Primary reference Number: 29022
Packing number: ISCER 658
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 (2023) "Tile" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/29022 Accessed: 2023-06-01 23:48:10
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Tile
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-01 23:48:10|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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