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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, moulded with a white or blue glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, moulded, covered with slightly pitted white or blue glaze, both crazed and painted with brown lustre.
Shape: everted rim with bulbous collar and straight neck ending in two horizontal ridges. Four faces of the body are shaped to form figures, enhanced by painted decoration, each separated by a prominent vertical corner ridge; sits on a foot ring
Exterior: mouth, neck and shoulder are decorated in lustre with concentric bands separating friezes of scrolling patterns which, on the collar, include jewel like motifs. On each side of the body, four female figures are painted in reserve, against a lustre background, wearing a headdress and a robe decorated with an inverted palmette leaf. Commas and jewel like motifs flank these figures while, on the vertical ridges at the corners of the vessel, friezes of Arabic script (cursive) are contained within vertical bands; all painted in lustre. Glaze runs unevenly over the very lowest part of the body and onto the foot ring. Lustre deteriorated on section of neck, possible due to misfiring.
Interior: rim has a concentric band of lustre over a blue glaze that extends over visible sections of the upper body.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 32.1 cm
Weight: 1295 g
Width: 20.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Interior Neck
composed of
glaze
( blue, crazed)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( crazed, pitted, white; runs unevenly over the very lowest part of the body and onto the foot ring)
oxide colours
( lustre)
Interior Rim
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Base
Diameter 11.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 6.5 cm
Throwing : Fritware, moulded, covered with slightly pitted white or blue glaze, both crazed and painted with brown lustre
Inscription present: on the vertical ridges at the corners of the vessel, friezes of script are contained within vertical bands
Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge
Inscription present: rectangular card tie on label attached around the neck with string
Accession number: C.430-1991
Primary reference Number: 75062
Packing number: ISCER 641
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/75062 Accessed: 2024-12-18 12:41:48
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 12:41:48|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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