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Fritware, painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, moulded, with black painted decoration under a crazed turquoise glaze.
Shape: bead rim and ridged neck sit on a horizontal shoulder which descends via a sharp carination onto a lobbed body and a low foot ring. A grooved strap handle, with thumb rest, is attached to the rim and the shoulder.
Exterior: all decoration is painted in black. On the shoulder and neck, scrolling vegetation, that in the latter case encircles two quadrapeds, is contained within concentric bands. A frieze of Arabic script (cursive) is painted in reserve against a black background on the shoulder carination. On the body, arabesques painted on raised lobes are enclosed, above by a scalloped line and scrolls, and below by a concentric line. Raised areas of the handle are also painted in black.
Interior: visible surface is covered with a thinner version of the exterior turquoise glaze.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 25.3 cm
Weight: 945 g
Width: 13.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
Circa
1200
CE
-
1299
CE
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, crazed)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( thin, turquoise on visible areas)
Rim
Diameter 4.6 cm
Base
Diameter 9.2 cm
Moulding : Fritware, moulded, with black painted decoration under a crazed turquoise glaze
Accession number: C.425-1991
Primary reference Number: 75048
Packing number: ISCER 616
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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