Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware with blue and white glaze painted with lustre
Buff fritware fragment, wheel thrown, with blue (pitted) and white glaze, both crazed and decorated with yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: roughly rectangular fragment forms profile of a dish with wide, everted rim and a low foot ring.
Interior: on the lip painted lustre forms a frieze of scrolling vegetation, enclosed, above and below, by concentric bands both of which are splashed with blue from the exterior glaze. On the body, painted in reserve against a lustre background, a frieze depicts a seated figure wearing a robe decorated with series of three dots. The figure is flanked either side by arabesques painted in lustre. On the base another figure, also painted in reserve against a lustred background but only partly visible due the fragmentary nature of the dish, wears a headdress.
Exterior: a band of lustre decorates the rim and a frieze of Arabic script (probably cursive) is painted faintly in lustre on the upper body. The blue glaze covers the surface unevenly to a half way point on the 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: 10.2 cm
Weight: 699 g
Width: 21.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
School or Style
Seljuk
Monumental style
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( blue, pitted, crazed)
oxide colour
( lustre)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( crazed, white)
oxide colour
( painted lustre)
Base
Diameter 10 cm
Rim
Diameter 24 cm
Exterior Body
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Buff fritware fragment, wheel thrown, with blue (pitted) and white glaze, both crazed and decorated with yellow-brown lustre
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.438-1991
Primary reference Number: 75093
Packing number: ISCER 608
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 12 June 2012
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
