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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.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 5.3 cm
Weight: 462 g
Width: 25.5 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
19th/20th Century
Circa
1850
-
Circa
1950
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
Throwing : Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown with white and pitted blue glaze, both crazed and painted in yellow-brown lustre
Inscription present: square paper label with torn edges
Accession number: C.435-1991
Primary reference Number: 75086
Packing number: ISCER 605
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) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75086 Accessed: 2023-03-21 17:02:13
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