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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with white glaze painted in blue, turquoise and lustre
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with blue and turquoise pigment under an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze, over-painted in brown lustre
Shape: carinated bowl with slightly everted rim, straight neck descending via steeply sloping sides onto a moderately high foot ring
Interior: two friezes on the neck are separated and enclosed by blue painted lines. These friezes contain either straight and wavey lines or dots and scrolling foliage. The central decoration depicts two seated opposing figures painted in reserve against a lustred background filled with scrolling leaves, flowers and articulated half palmettes. Both figures wear tunics decorated with scrolls and hats, all highlighted by blue pigment. Between the figures a pear shaped tree is coloured with turquoise; above them a bird is highlighted in blue; below them a fish swims in a blue painted pool. Exterior: a frieze of Arabic script (cursive) on the neck is painted in lustre and enclosed by two concentric painted blue lines. On the body a repeating rosette pattern, with each petal containing a dot, is painted in reserve against a solid lustred background, below a single concentric line of lustre. Glaze covers the body but runs unevenly over the foot ring, although the underside is glazed.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 10.2 cm
Weight: 471 g
Width: 19.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century, Late
19th Century-20th Century#
Circa
1260
CE
-
1280
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
pigment
( turquoise)
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Rim
Diameter 19.1 cm
Base
Diameter 6.8 cm
Exterior
Throwing : Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with blue and turquoise pigment under an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze, over-painted in brown lustre
Inscription present: a frieze of script on the neck is painted in lustre and enclosed by two concentric painted blue lines
Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.445-1991
Primary reference Number: 75124
Packing number: ISCER 620
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 (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75124 Accessed: 2024-12-18 13:24:08
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 13:24:08|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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