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Potter: Unknown
Earthenware coated in a white slip painted black and blue under a turquoise glaze
Earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip, painted in black and blue under a crazed and pitted turquoise glaze
Shape: T-shaped rim on a segmental bowl with a low foot ring
Interior: rim is painted with black dashes and bands. On the neck a frieze of black comma shapes are separated by blue vertical lines and enclosed within a set of black concentric lines. A roughly painted blue cross radiates from the base over the body; between the arms a floral garland is painted in black with a blue central flower. A scar on the base indicates the use of a tripod stacking devise in the kiln.
Exterior: a black scrolling line on the neck. Glaze runs over the neck to a point on the upper body; the white slip covers the upper body with traces over the lower body.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 10.7 cm
Weight: 963 g
Width: 24 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century-15th Century#
Circa
1300
-
1499
Exterior Upper Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise)
slip
( white)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( turquoise)
slip
( white)
Rim
Diameter 24 cm
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Throwing : Earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a white slip, painted in black and blue under a crazed and pitted turquoise glaze
Accession number: C.579-1991
Primary reference Number: 75568
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75568 Accessed: 2024-11-02 20:20:00
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{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75568
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-02 20:20:00|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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