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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with white glaze and painted in lustre
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, covered with an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze painted in yellow-brown lustre
Shape: finely potted conical bowl with carination, plain rim and foot ring.
Interior: rim is painted in a band of lustre below which a frieze of Arabic script (kufic) is interspersed with scrolls. On the body, a frieze alternately incorporates sphinx in medallions, painted in reverse against a lustred background, and roughly drawn arabesques comprising dots and lines in lustre. The central roundel contains a single seated musician playing a lute, wearing a head dress and a spotted robe; painted in reserve against a lustred background including leafy scrolls.
Exterior: a frieze of lustre scrolls, with groups separated by double vertical lines and enclosed above and below by a concentric band; all painted in lustre . The clear glaze runs over the body to the upper foot ring, splashes of lustre are also on 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: 6.6 cm
Weight: 224 g
Width: 16.4 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Late 12th Century
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre)
glaze
( opaque white, crazed glaze runs over the body to the upper foot ring)
Interior
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre)
glaze
( opaque white, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 16.4 cm
Base
Diameter 7.2 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware bowl, wheel thrown, covered with a clear, slightly crazed glaze with lustre painted on the interior and exterior surface
Accession number: C.448-1991
Primary reference Number: 75131
Packing number: ISCER 636
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 (2022) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75131 Accessed: 2022-12-05 19:08:16
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