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Potter: Unknown
Buff fritware, mould made covered in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with flange, lightly bracketed rim, on a low foot ring
Interior: the cavetto is lightly incised with over-lapping scales. In the roundel decoration is reserved in blue and outlined in black, two qilin type beasts are portrayed back to back against a background of lotus flowers and leaves.
Exterior: on the lower body a frieze of half flowers are painted between scrolls. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring; a square seal mark is painted in black on the base. Scar mark just below the rim indicates contact with another vessel in the kiln.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 7.5 cm
Weight: 3282 g
Width: 48 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century, first half#
Circa
1600
CE
-
Circa
1650
CE
Base
Diameter 25.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 48 cm
blue
Pigment
colourless, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
white
Slip
Fritware
Moulding
: Buff fritware, mould made covered in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Painting underglaze
Glazing (coating)
Slip-coating
Inscription present: painted under the glaze
Accession number: C.496-1991
Primary reference Number: 75298
Packing number: CHICER 986
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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