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Earthenware fragment, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of brown pigment
Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of brown pigment
Shape: base, part of foot ring and part of lower body of a vessel
Interior: a cup blazon incised into a cream slip over a ground coloured with a thin layer of brown pigment, bounded above and below by horizontal bands of cream slip
Exterior: yellow glaze over a thin layer of cream slip allowing the dark body colour to show through, the underside of the foot ring also slipped and glazed, otherwise undecorated
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 4 cm
Weight: 161 g
Width: 10 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( brown)
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
( yellow)
Foot Ring
Diameter 7 cm
Throwing : Wheel-thrown earthenware bowl fragment with a red body tone, incised through a cream slip under a yellow glaze and enhanced with areas of brown pigment
Accession number: C.508-1991
Primary reference Number: 75339
Packing number: ISCER 627
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) "Sherd" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75339 Accessed: 2024-11-25 20:14:53
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University of Cambridge}}
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