IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75233 accession number: C.478-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: fritware, white glaze painted in lustre title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Henry Scipio Reitlinger creditline: H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75233 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff fritware, mould made, with a white crazed glaze splashed with blue and painted in brown lustre moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1400 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 15 dimension: Weight units: g value: 448 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.3 CITATIONS -------- Islamic Works of Art, Carpets and Textiles A Guide to the Collection of Tiles Persian Lustre Ware Tamerlane's Tableware. A New Approach to the Chinoiserie Ceramics of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth- Century Iran --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_478_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_478_1991.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_478_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_478_1991.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels