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Potter: Unknown
Frirware with carved black slip under a turquoise glaze
Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in black slip, carved under a dull, crazed and lightly pitted turquoise glaze.
Shape: inverted pear shaped jar with everted rim, cylindrical neck and a low foot ring
Exterior: the rim is coated in a black slip; while on the neck the black slip is carved to form a repeating frieze of curved lozenges and half lozenges with central dots. On the shoulder, a frieze of Arabic script (kufic) is interspersed with scrolling foliage. The body is covered with vertical lines alternating in thickness. The glaze runs unevenly over the very lowest sections of the body, not always covering the black underlying slip.
Interior: The turquoise glaze continues over the interior but only thinly coats the surface below the neck.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 27.4 cm
Weight: 1349 g
Width: 19.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1150
-
1200
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( black, carved)
glaze
( turquoise, dull crazed)
Interior Body
composed of
glaze
( tuquoise, thin)
Rim
Diameter 9.5 cm
Base
Diameter 9.9 cm
Throwing : Fritware, probably wheel thrown, coated in black slip, carved under a dull crazed and lightly pitted turquoise glaze
Inscription present: on the shoulder, a frieze of script is interspersed with scrolling foliage
Inscription present: rectangular card label tied around neck of vessel with string and inscribed by hand with black ink
Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.527-1991
Primary reference Number: 75425
Packing number: ISCER 572
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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