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Potter: Unknown
Frtiwate with white and blue glaze painted in lustre
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque white glaze on the exterior and a streaked, pitted blue glaze on the interior both slightly crazed and painted with yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: bowl with slightly bulbous vertical sides and an everted rim descending via a carination onto a moderately high foot ring.
Exterior: Central frieze on the body comprises foliated vegetation and palmettes painted in reverse against a lustred background, it is contained above and below by a concentric band of lustre. The interior of each leaf and stem is outlined in a single painted lustre line. Glaze covers the body to the upper part of the foot ring and splashed spots of light blue, from the interior glaze, are visible at two points.
Interior: A concentric band of lustre paint decorates the rim over a blue glaze.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 12.5 cm
Weight: 594 g
Width: 17.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Interior
composed of
glaze
( blue, streaked, pitted and crazed)
Exterior
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre paint)
glaze
( opaque white, to mid point on the foot ring)
glaze
( splashes of blue pigment)
Interior Rim
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre paint)
Rim
Diameter 17.3 cm
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque white glaze on the exterior and a streaked, pitted blue glaze on the interior both slightly crazed and painted with yellow-brown lustre
Inscription present: paper tie on label with string attached and a green sticker adhered to the string
Accession number: C.446-1991
Primary reference Number: 75127
Packing number: ISCER 604
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/75127 Accessed: 2024-11-22 01:35:46
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