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Fritware coated with a colourless or blue glaze painted with lustre
Fritware, wheel thrown, on the exterior coated with a blue glaze painted with lustre and on the interior with a cracked, colourless glaze.
Shape: irregular fragment, straight neck descending via a sharp carination onto a cylindrical body
Exterior: on the shoulder scrolls are painted, while on the neck and upper body partial calligraphic freezes are evident. Lower on the body, a bird’s head and neck are painted amongst foliage that includes spiked leaves.
Interior: undecorated except for the glaze streaked with blue pigment, probably from the exterior.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 17.5 cm
Weight: 381 g
Width: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1905-05-03) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century
Circa
1300
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue runs under the glaze from the exterior surface)
glaze
( colourless, crazed)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( blue)
oxide colours
( lustre)
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, on the exterior coated with a blue glaze painted with lustre and on the interior with a cracked, colourless glaze
Inscription present: cursive Arabic script painted by hand on the glaze surface
Accession number: C.509-1991
Primary reference Number: 75341
Packing number: ISCER 646
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Fragment" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75341 Accessed: 2024-12-18 18:35:03
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