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Potter: Unknown (Possibly)
Earthenware coated in a cream slip, painted in four colours under a clear glaze
Buff earthenware, coated in a cream slip painted blue, purple, turquoise and black under a clear slightly crazed glaze.
Shape: segmental bowl, thickly potted with an angled lip and slight carination in the body, sits on a narrow, low foot ring
Interior: the rim is painted blue, while on the lip roughly fish are outlined in black and contain a large blue dot. On the remainder of the vessel all decoration is outlined in black and filled with blue, purple or turquoise colour. On the body, paired turquoise and purple petals are framed above and below by blue dots painted within a rough tailed semi-circle. In the roundel, a lion with large purple spots walks amongst a landscape of blue leaves and two turquoise cypress trees with blue core. Scars on the base may indicate the use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln.
Exterior: blue paint continues onto the rim exterior. On the upper body, four roughly drawn turquoise spirals, one of which is splashed with turquoise, are painted at regular intervals. The glaze runs unevenly from the mid point on the body, ending on the lower body; the remainder of the cream slip is visible on the remainder of the surface.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 7.3 cm
Weight: 1394 g
Width: 32.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century#
Circa
1400
CE
-
Circa
1500
CE
Provincial ware
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, purple, turquoise, blue)
glaze
( clear, slightly crazed)
slip
( cream)
Exteiror Body
composed of
slip
( cream)
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
pigment
( purple, turquoise)
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( runs unevenly from the mid point on the body, ending on the lower body)
Rim
Diameter 32.3 cm
Base
Diameter 9.6 cm
Throwing : Buff earthenware, coated in a cream slip painted blue, purple, turquoise and black under a clear slightly crazed glaze
Accession number: C.575-1991
Primary reference Number: 75560
Packing number: ISCER 577
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75560 Accessed: 2024-11-24 10:01:00
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