Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Fritware painted in blue and black under a clear glaze
Pinky buff fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a clear, crazed glaze
Shape: everted, flange lip with a bead rim on a hemispherical bowl sitting on a low foot ring
Interior: rim is painted black. On the lip and lower body, two identical friezes comprise roughly drawn black cartouches, enclosing lines and dots, each separated by pairs of blue vertical lines and enclosed by concentric black lines. This decoration delineates a broad frieze on the body comprising alternately orientated triangles, either black, containing dotted foliage against a hatched ground, or blue, subdivided and containing or surrounded by black and turquoise dots or lines. On the base a blue central rosette is outlined in black.
Exterior: rim is painted black, while on the body narrow ‘V’ shapes are painted in blue or black. Glaze runs over surface and unevenly on the foot ring.
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: 6.6 cm
Weight: 495 g
Width: 23.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1275
-
1399
School or Style
Il-Khanid
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( clear, crazed)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( runs over surface and unevenly on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 23.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Pinky buff fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black under a clear, crazed glaze
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.457-1991
Primary reference Number: 75168
Packing number: ISCER 585
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
