Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware with white and blue glaze under lustre paint
Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown with white and pitted blue glaze, both crazed and painted in yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: hemispherical dish with a flange rim and a low foot ring.
Interior: decoration entirely in reserve against a lustred background. On the rim, a frieze of small circles is enclosed above and below by concentric lines; blue pigment from the exterior glaze forms irregular spots of colour. The central decoration features a horseman, seated on a harnessed horse adorned with a starred blanket. The horseman wears a hat and a tunic; the latter decorated with groups of dots that match the larger groups of dots on the horse’s body. The background contains scrolling vines with palmette leaves.
Exterior: a lustre band decorates the rim, while the blue glaze on the body extends to the upper foot ring.
Notes
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Legal notes
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
Height: 5.3 cm
Weight: 462 g
Width: 25.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
19th Century-20th Century
Circa
1850
-
Circa
1950
School or Style
modern fake
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, pitted and crazed; extends to the upper foot ring)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, crazed)
Exterior Rim
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Rim
Diameter 25.3 cm
Base
Diameter 9.7 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown with white and pitted blue glaze, both crazed and painted in yellow-brown lustre
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: square paper label with torn edges
- Text: illegible, possibly arabic
- Location: Base exterior
- Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.435-1991
Primary reference Number: 75086
Packing number: ISCER 605
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
