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Fritware with white glaze painted in lustre
Buff fritware, mould made, covered with a white glaze painted in brown lustre. Star shaped.
Decorated surface: painted in reserve against a lustred background a seated figure wearing a gown, decorated with groups of three dots, and a headdress is depicted against a background of coiling vines. On the edge of the tile, an area left undecorated in lustre forms a white contour line, that echoes its’ star shape. Glaze and lustre runs over the tile edges.
Reverse surface: undecorated
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 1.5 cm
Length: 11.5 cm
Weight: 240 g
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1175
CE
-
1225
CE
Decorated Surface composed of oxide colours ( lustre) glaze ( white)
Moulding : Buff fritware, mould made, covered with a white glaze painted in brown lustre
Accession number: C.442-1991
Primary reference Number: 75118
Packing number: ISCER 632
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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