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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a white slip painted blue and black under a clear glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a powdery white slip painted in blue and black under a clear crazed glaze.
Shape: Segmental bowl with an angular lip and bead rim, sits on a low foot ring base.
Interior: rim is stripped with blue lines, while on the lip a frieze of blue cross-hatching is separated at regular intervals by black vertical lines containing blue dots. On the interior, lobbed cartouches are outlined in black and contain either a blue cross within a circle or a series of blue dots. The cartouches are painted against a background of blue scrolling lines.
Exterior: On the upper body a frieze of blue vertical lines are contained within two concentric lines. The glaze reaches a mid point on the body below which a powdery white slip is visible covering the remaining surface.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 8 cm
Weight: 1,472 g
Width: 32 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century, Late-15th Century#
Circa
1395
CE
-
1499
CE
Rare piece as few examples of early Kubachi wares survive
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( clear)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( clear)
Base
Diameter 11.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 32 cm
Throwing
: Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a powdery white slip painted in blue and black under a clear crazed glaze
Slip-coating
Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.547-1991
Primary reference Number: 75487
Packing number: ISCER 970
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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