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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, painted in dark blue under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in dark blue under a transparent turquoise glaze
Shape: inverted pear-shaped body with cylindrical neck and everted rim, sits on a foot ring base
Exterior: on the rim a repeating pattern of three dotted circles in ‘pseduo-Kufic’ style, while on the neck a frieze of diagonal, elongated ‘s’ shapes is painted. On the body a wide band of palmette leaves is framed above and below by a band of vertical zigzags and horiziontal lines. Glaze terminates unevenly on the lower body or base.
Interior: undecorated except for a coating of glaze.
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 20.7 cm
Weight: 939 g
Width: 17.7 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
13th Century
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1299
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( dark blue)
glaze
( turquoise)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Base
Diameter 9.7 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.7 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in dark blue under a transparent turquoise glaze
Inscription present: Circular paper label with serrated edge, hand written in black
Accession number: C.526-1991
Primary reference Number: 75423
Packing number: ISCER 995
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) "Jar" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75423 Accessed: 2023-03-27 15:45:13
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Accession Number: E.S.14
Accession Number: E.S.13
Accession Number: E.S.15
Accession Number: E.P.267
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