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Red-brown earthenware, slipped with incised lines and coloured pigment under a clear glaze
Red-brown wheel-thrown earthenware coated cream slip which is carved and coloured in with green or brown in selected areas, all under a clear glaze.
Shape: Thickly potted hemispherical bowl with in-turned rim and concave disc base
Interior: On rim and neck, incised decoration cuts through cream slip in the form of scallops enclosed above and below by two concentric lines. Dominating the remainder of the interior, a quadruped, possibly a donkey, with well defined features and surrounded by vegetal scrolls, is carved into the cream slip. At irregular intervals, green, or less commonly brown, pigment is splashed over the slip.
Exterior: Concentric incised lines enclose impressed vertical lines, both under a glaze coloured green with brown splashes. Glaze covers the upper quarter of the body, the remainder is undecorated.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 9.5 cm
Weight: 717 g
Width: 18.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
11th-13th Century
Circa
1000
-
1299
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
pigment
( green, brown)
glaze
Upper Exterior
composed of
pigment
( green, brown)
glaze
Rim
Diameter 16.7 cm
Base
Diameter 7.5 cm
Exterior
Throwing : Red-brown wheel-thrown earthenware coated cream slip which is carved and coloured in with green or brown in selected areas, all under a clear glaze
Inscription present: rectangular card tie on label with string attached
Accession number: C.417-1991
Primary reference Number: 74981
Packing number: ISCER992
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74981 Accessed: 2024-11-02 18:25:51
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-02 18:25:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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