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Potter: Unknown
Calcareous earthenware, with designs outlined in black slip and coloured with white, blue and turquoise pitted glaze and red brown slip, with small areas of gilding
Shape: pentagonal tile with slightly bevelled edges
Upper side: colours are separated by a thin black line of slip. A turquoise border frames a white palmette overlying a central gilded, polychrome rosette and pendant turquoise buds, all reserved in blue.
Under side: undecorated but with patches of plaster
History note: Probably 'From the tomb of the Grand-daughter of Tamerland A.D. 1445 see B. Museum'. H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Depth: 2.5 cm
Height: 16 cm
Weight: 720 g
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century, Late-15th Century, Mid
Circa
1375
CE
-
1450
CE
Upper Surface composed of slip ( black lines separate glaze colours) glaze ( blue, turquoise, white) gold leaf ( in discreet areas) slip ( red-brown)
buff-coloured Earthenware
Moulding : Calcareous earthenware, with designs outlined in black slip and coloured with white, blue and turquoise pitted glaze and red brown slip, with small areas of gilding
Inscription present: rectangular paper label printed with a red line and serrated on the upper edge with faded, illegible inscription but probably the same as those on C.562-1991 and C.563-1991 which cite that they are from ‘From the tomb of the Grand-Daughter of Tamerlane A.D. 1445’
Inscription present: written directly onto clay surface
Accession number: C.566-1991
Primary reference Number: 17556
Packing number: ISCER 559
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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