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Production: Unknown
Fritware painted in black and blue under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted in black and blue under a colourless glaze.
Upper surface: in places around the edge a black linear border is visible. In the centre, painted in blue a floral spray incorporates rosettes on scrolling circular stems and scrolling leaves.
Lower surface: undecorated
History note: 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: 1.4 cm
Height: 10.2 cm
Weight: 158 g
Width: 11.7 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
15th century
Circa
1400
CE
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Circa
1499
CE
Upper Surface composed of pigment ( black, blue) glaze ( colourless)
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, painted in black and blue under a colourless glaze.
Accession number: C.549O-1991
Primary reference Number: 29034
Packing number: ISCER 658
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) "Tile fragment" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29034 Accessed: 2023-06-10 03:17:30
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University of Cambridge}}
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