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Pottery: Unknown (Uncertain)
Dark buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the interior and exterior except for the base; the interior incised and touched with copper-green under very thin lead-glaze. Circular, with shallow carinated sides, and slightly sloping centre, standing on a footring. Decorated in the centre with an incised stylised bird with a large splodge of green over its front and a thinner green outline round its back and tail. Round the edge at irregular intervals there are green splodges, two of which have run downwards.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Height: 4.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century#
Circa
1400
-
1500
Byzantine, probably from Cyprus or Italy?
Whole, Not Base
composed of
slip
( cream)
Glaze
composed of
lead-glaze
Paint
composed of
copper-green
Rim
Diameter 12.8 cm
Foot
Diameter 6.4 cm
Decoration
Throwing
: Dark buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the interior and exterior except for the base; the interior incised and touched with copper-green under very thin lead-glaze.
Slip-coated
Accession number: C.328-1991
Primary reference Number: 21839
Old object number: EURCER/432
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://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21839 Accessed: 2024-11-25 20:08:40
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 20:08:40|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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