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Buff fritware with carved decoration under a blue glaze
Large fritware, wheel thrown, with carved decoration and a crazed and pitted lavender blue monochrome glaze.
Shape: Large fritware bowl, roughly hemispherical, with slightly incurving sides and a slightly everted rim, sitting on a high foot ring base.
Exterior: Below the rim carved scrolling decoration, resembling omega symbols on their side, form a repeating pattern with some irregularity in the carving. The central frieze comprises an Arabic script (kufic) with incised foliage in the areas between the down strokes. Above and below this frieze are raised, carved concentric lines. The lower body is gadrooned with some irregularities in the carving. The same glaze runs in an irregular pattern down the exterior foot ring .
Interior: Undecorated except for a glaze coating in lavender blue, thinner than that on the exterior.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 18.5 cm
Weight: 1687 g
Width: 26.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
1199
CE
Base
Diameter 12 cm
Rim
Diameter 25.9 cm
Exterior
opaque lavender blue, uneven coverage on foot ring base
Glaze
Fritware
Throwing
: Large fritware, wheel thrown, with carved decoration and a lavender blue monochrome glaze
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: foliated kufic script carved in a frieze on upper body
Inscription present: square paper label with serrated edge down the right hand side
Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge
Inscription present: rectangular card label with piece of string attached and cello tape on string
Accession number: C.410-1991
Primary reference Number: 28926
Packing number: ISCER 586
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/28926 Accessed: 2024-12-24 02:05:37
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