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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with carved black slip under a turquoise glaze
Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, with carved black slip, under a dull crazed and lightly pitted but thick turquoise glaze.
Shape: segmental bowl with a gentle carination in the upper body, a flat rim and a moderately high foot ring.
Interior: a guilloche pattern is apparently on the rim is confined by a thin line above and a thicker line below on the upper body. The well is decorated with Arabic inscription (kufic), surrounded by scrolls and vegetation produced by carving a black slip.
Exterior: rim is partially painted line. Glaze runs over the body, covering the surface unevenly and running onto the foot ring.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 7 cm
Weight: 404 g
Width: 20.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1150
CE
-
1200
CE
Interior
composed of
slip
( black)
glaze
( turquoise)
Exterior Rim
composed of
slip
( black)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( turquoise, covers the surface unevenly and running onto the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 20.7 cm
Base
Diameter 7.2 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, with carved black slip, under a dull crazed and lightly pitted but thick turquoise glaze
Accession number: C.524-1991
Primary reference Number: 75418
Packing number: ISCER 975
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75418 Accessed: 2024-11-14 22:36:11
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75418
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-14 22:36:11|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_524_1991_281_29.jpg"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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