IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75560 accession number: C.575-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 14 October 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: earthenware coated in a cream slip, painted in four colours under a clear glaze title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Henry Scipio Reitlinger creditline: H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75560 SUBJECTS ------------------- lion lion TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, coated in a cream slip painted blue, purple, turquoise and black under a clear slightly crazed glaze throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1400 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1394 dimension: Width units: cm value: 32.3 CITATIONS -------- The Interim Period in Persian Pottery Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum Ceramics from Islamic Lands Blue and White. Chinese Porcelain Around the World --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_575_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_575_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_575_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_575_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_575_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_575_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_575_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_575_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_575_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_575_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_575_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_575_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels