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Fritware, white glaze painted in lustre
Buff fritware, mould made, with a white crazed glaze splashed with blue and painted in brown lustre.
Shape: hexagonal with flat surface
Decorated Surface: a central rosette, surrounded by coiling vines and leaves, is painted in lustre and occupies most of the surface. Four feint splashes of blue are present at roughly regular intervals on the surface. This pattern is delineated by a line of lustre which is echoed by a band of lustre around the edge of the tile.
Reverse surface: undecorated but with plaster adhesions.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 2 cm
Length: 15 cm
Weight: 448 g
Width: 13.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century#
Circa
1400
CE
-
1500
CE
Decorated Surface composed of pigment ( blue) oxide colours ( lustre) glaze ( white)
Moulding : Buff fritware, mould made, with a white crazed glaze splashed with blue and painted in brown lustre
Inscription present: hand written in pencil directly onto reverse surface
Accession number: C.478-1991
Primary reference Number: 75233
Packing number: ISCER 623
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tile" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75233 Accessed: 2024-11-02 18:28:07
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