Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware, coated in white slip painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip painted in black under a turquoise pitted glaze
Shape: hemispherical bowl with plain rim and sitting on a foot ring.
Interior: decoration painted in black. On a section of the upper body, below a concentric band on the rim a curvilinear, dotted, cross hatched area is contained within two lines forming a ‘hillock’. Stemmed plants, whose larger leaves are filled with dots, sprout from this ‘hillock’ to occupy the interior surface of the bowl. Glaze covers surface unevenly, leaving small areas where vessel fabric is visible.
Exterior: rim is painted with a black concentric line from which black vertical lines radiate towards the lower body. Glaze covers the surface thinly, with the surface significantly pitted, to a point on the lower body. Below the glaze a thin white slip is visible covering the entire surface.
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: 12.1 cm
Weight: 889 g
Width: 24.4 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
14th Century-15th Century
Circa
1300
-
1499
Note
Possible example of provincial ware
School or Style
Timurid
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, covers surface unevenly, leaving small areas where vessel fabric is visible)
slip
( white)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, covers the surface thinly, with the surface significantly pitted, to a point on the lower body)
Exterior
composed of
slip
( thinly covers the surface except underside of foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 24.4 cm
Base
Diameter 7.9 cm
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip painted in black under a turquoise pitted glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular card label with string and sticky label attached
- Text: ISCER/567
- Location: Loose in bowl
- Method of creation: Hand written in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.473-1991
Primary reference Number: 75223
Packing number: ISCER 567
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
