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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black under a crazed turquoise glaze
Shape: hemispherical bowl sitting on a wide foot ring
Interior: On the neck a pseudo-calligraphic frieze is painted in reserve against a black, closely dashed, background containing lobbed cartouche in which arrow shapes are drawn. Below two concentric lines are painted, one of which is crossed with vertical lines. On the base, pointed star contains a rosette painted against another closely hatched background. Radiating from the star, lobbed cartouche, whose shape is outlined inside these shapes by a closely hatched background, contain arrow shapes. Tassel shapes separate these cartouches. Glaze is pooled slightly in the base; three scar marks on the interior indicate the use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln.
Exterior: a pseudo-calligraphic border, identical to that on the interior, is painted on the neck. On the body a frieze of rectangles, in which a flower is painted against a cross hatched background, are separated by a twig like line. On the lower body a concentric band of leaves and stems are painted. The glaze runs over the lower body onto the foot ring, with drops forming on the base; the underside of the foot ring is also glazed
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 14.7 cm
Weight: 2089 g
Width: 31.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century
Circa
1600
-
1699
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, pooled in base)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, runs over the lower body onto the foot ring, with drops forming on the base; the underside of the foot ring is also glazed)
Base
Diameter 15.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 31.1 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black under a crazed turquoise glaze
Inscription present: remnants of a rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.498-1991
Primary reference Number: 75301
Packing number: ISCER 595
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 (2023) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75301 Accessed: 2023-05-30 23:08:51
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-30 23:08:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: E.P.467
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Accession Number: E.277.1932
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