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Potter: Unknown (Probably)
Fritware painted in blue, black and green under a clear glaze
Pinky buff fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black and green with with a clear, crazed glaze
Shape: bead rim and slightly angular neck descending via a carination onto a concave body sitting on a low foot ring.
Exterior: the rim is painted black, contrasting with a horizontal frieze of black circles with a blue central dot on the neck. On the body, vertical friezes of blue cross hatching, green lines or lines of green circles with blue dots are painted; these are contained on the upper and lower body by horizontal friezes of triangles outlined in black and containing blue stripes. Glaze runs over the foot ring.
Interior: undecorated, although patches of glaze are present.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 30.5 cm
Weight: 1, 458 g
Width: 15.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century
Circa
1300
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black, green)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( clear runs over the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( patches of clear glaze)
Rim
Diameter 10.6 cm
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
Throwing : Pinky buff fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue, black and green with with a clear, crazed glaze
Accession number: C.530-1991
Primary reference Number: 75436
Packing number: ISCER 998
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.181-1991
Accession Number: EC.26-1945
Accession Number: C.2187-1928
Accession Number: C.60-1927
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