IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75100
accession number:	C.440-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 10 November 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: buff fritware, star shaped tile, mould made, covered with a white crazed and slightly pitted glaze painted in yellow-brown lustre
Decorated surface: painted in reserve against a lustred background a bird (possibly an eagle) is depicted in profile with spots of lustre on its’ body and scrolling leaves in the background. On the edge of the tile, an area left undecorated in lustre forms a white contour, that echoes its' star shape. Glaze and lustre runs over the tile edges.
Reverse surface: accidental spots of glaze and lustre, but otherwise undecorated.
object type: fritware with white glaze painted in lustre
title:	tile

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Henry Scipio Reitlinger
creditline: H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75100


SUBJECTS
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bird
bird



TECHNIQUES
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buff fritware, star shaped tile, mould made, covered with a white crazed and slightly pitted glaze painted in yellow-brown lustre
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1175 - 1225
creation date earliest:	1175
creation date latest:	1225
culture:	12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1.7

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 13.1

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 271

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 11.7



CITATIONS
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Islamic Works of Art, Carpets and Textiles
Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection
Persian Lustre Ware
Islamic Tiles
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IMAGES

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width: 760 pixels

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