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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, painted in blue under a clear glaze
Fritware, painted in blue with outlining in dark blue under a clear glaze
Shape: bulbous pear shaped bottle on a low, wide foot ring and with replacement copper alloy neck.
Exterior: copper alloys funnel with, beaded rim and engraved concentric line on the lower body, replaces the ceramic upper neck. On the lower neck, shoots ending in leaves sprout from grassy hillocks above a frieze of scrolling leaves enclosed within concentric bands. On the shoulder, a band of lappets mark the start of decoration on the body of four palmettes comprising stemmed leaves, a central lozenge and feathered lower sections. On the lower body, a band of scallops are painted above a concentric line at the join between the body and base. Dent in the side indicates contact with another vessel before firing. Glaze covers the surface evenly except on the lower foot ring, the underside of which is also glazed and with a painter’s makr under the glaze in blue.
Interior: not visible
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 29.2 cm
Weight: 995 g
Width: 17.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century, second half#
Circa
1650
CE
-
1699
CE
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( clear, pearly, covers the surface evenly except on the lower foot ring, the underside of which is also glazed)
Body
composed of
fritware
Rim And Neck
composed of
copper alloy
Base
Diameter 11.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 2.3 cm
Inscription present: inscription painted in blue under the glaze
Accession number: C.484-1991
Primary reference Number: 75259
Packing number: ISCER 521
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) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75259 Accessed: 2024-11-02 21:30:44
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University of Cambridge}}
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