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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear crazed glaze.
Shape: carinated bowl with a plain rim sitting on a narrow, moderately high foot ring.
Interior: rim is painted black and a black concentric line is painted at the carination between neck and body. On the base, within a black pin wheel roundel, two leafy plants, outlined in black and with blue or turquoise leaves surrounded by lines of black dots, frame a lanceolate leaf. The leaf is also outlined in black and contains a sinuous core outlined in black against a blue painted background.
Exterior: rim is painted black and concentric black lines are painted on the carination and lower body. Glaze continues to lower body at a point above 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: 10.5 cm
Weight: 549 g
Width: 20 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1260
-
1399
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue, turquoise)
glaze
( clear, crazed)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( clear, crazed and continues to lower body at a point above the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 18.6 cm
Base
Diameter 6.6 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear crazed glaze
Inscription present: off-white rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.464-1991
Primary reference Number: 75194
Packing number: ISCER 546
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/75194 Accessed: 2024-12-22 18:03:04
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 18:03:04|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-75194
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