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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with blue and white glazes and lustre painted decoration
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with painted yellow-brown lustre decoration over an opaque white, crazed glaze on the interior and a blue crazed glaze on the exterior.
Shape: cono-segmental bowl with plain rim sitting on a low foot ring.
Interior: rim is decorated with a band of lustre above a radiating frieze of three fleshy arabesques. These are separated by a ‘Y’ shaped band, delineated by single lines, enclosing dense scrolling vegetation. The glazed is pooled slightly in the base creating a greenish tinge and a light blue wash runs from the rim, probably from the external glaze colour.
Exterior: rim has a small band of lustre and a frieze of Arabic script (probably cursive) the latter lightly painted in a free hand on the upper body. The vessel body is coated with a blue glaze which runs unevenly over the foot ring.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 6.3 cm
Weight: 175 g
Width: 14.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, crazed glaze runs down over the body and section of the upper foot ring)
paint
( lustre)
Interior
composed of
paint
( lustre)
glaze
( opaque white, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 14.5 cm
Base
Diameter 4.7 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with painted yellow-brown lustre decoration over a clear, crazed glaze on the interior and a blue crazed glaze on the exterior
Inscription present: frieze of script lightly painted in a free hand on the upper body
Inscription present: Rectangular card tie on label with a string and sticky label attached
Accession number: C.444-1991
Primary reference Number: 75122
Packing number: ISCER 637
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75122 Accessed: 2024-12-22 20:51:46
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