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Unknown
(Potter)
Earthenware covered with a turquoise glaze
Earthenware, mould made, covered on the upper surface with a pitted and cracked turquoise glaze
Shape: eight pointed star tile with bevelled edges
Upper surface: covered with a turquoise glaze that runs over onto the edges
Underside: undecorated except for a spot of glaze, probably from another object in the kiln.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transfered from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 1 cm
Weight: 209 g
Width: 13.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th-14th Century
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1399
CE
Upper Surface composed of glaze ( turquoise)
Earthenware : Earthenware, mould made, covered on the upper surface with a pitted and cracked turquoise glaze
Inscription present: circular label
Accession number: C.402-1991
Primary reference Number: 17511
Packing number: ISCER 566
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 (2022)
"Tile"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17511 Accessed: 2022-07-01 17:39:40
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17511
|title=Tile
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-07-01 17:39:40|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_402_1991.jpg"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Tile</figcaption>
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