Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Fritware with carved exterior and a white glaze; blue and lustre paint
Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, with a lightly carved exterior and blue paint under a white glaze decorated with brown lustre.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with plain rim and small, low foot ring. Exterior has lightly carved panels emphasised by a painted petal design.
Interior: radiating pattern with alternating panels of floral designs and inter-locking ‘S’ shaped motifs against a background of spiral irregular shapes. These panels are separated by blue painted vertical lines; a similar concentric line decorates the rim.
Exterior: blue paint on the rim continues. The body is decorated with lotus petals which radiate from the base and alternately contain Arabic script (cursive) or a combination of scrolls and horizontal lines. The glaze runs onto the upper area of the foot ring where it has an uneven brownish tinge from lustre decoration.
Notes
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Legal notes
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
Height: 9.8 cm
Weight: 455 g
Width: 21.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
13th Century, Late
Circa
1260
CE
-
1280
CE
School or Style
Il-Khanid
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
oxide colour
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Exterior Rim
composed of
pigment
( blue)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre)
glaze
( white)
Rim
Diameter 21.6 cm
Base
Diameter 6.5 cm
Exterior
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, with a lightly carved exterior and blue paint under a white glaze decorated with brown lustre
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.453-1991
Primary reference Number: 75160
Packing number: ISCER 592
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
