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Potter: Unknown
Buff fritware with turquoise glaze
Fritware, probably wheel thrown, with crazed opaque turquoise opaque glaze.
Shape: Pear shaped small jug on a low foot ring and a trefoil mouth is joined to the body via a collared neck. A strap handle, with thumb rest at highest point, is attached to the mouth and vessel body.
Exterior: Lightly incised concentric line, on the mid-body. Opaque, crazed turquoise glaze covers the vessel body and partially covers the foot ring.
Interior: Only mouth visible, this is covered with an opaque turquoise glaze identical to that on the vessel exterior.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 13.7 cm
Weight: 191 g
Width: 8.2 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
12th-13th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
1299
CE
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( opaque turquoise, crazed)
Interior Mouth
composed of
glaze
( opaque, turquoise, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 3.6 cm
Base
Diameter 4.8 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with turquoise opaque glaze
Inscription present: rectangular card tie on label with string attachment
Inscription present: adhesive oval circular paper label with a pair of gold bands around the exterior
Inscription present: directly onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.408-1991
Primary reference Number: 28922
Packing number: ISCER 588
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 (2023) "Jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28922 Accessed: 2023-03-21 09:10:13
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Accession Number: E.P.287
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Accession Number: E.9.1909
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