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Pottery: Unknown
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with two medallions, one enclosing a long-legged bird among plants, and the other flowering plants and rocks, and below, a pseudo-Kufic border
Pale buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed white overall and painted in blue. On each side, reserved in a scrolled ground, there is a quatrefoil panel, one decorated with a long-legged bird among plants, and the other with rocks and flowering plants in Oriental style. Below, between pairs of narrow horizontal bands there is a border of pseudo-Kufic (resembling open and closed clothes pegs). On the shoulder there is a border of scallops and spots beween pairs of horizontal bands
History note: William ridout; sold Christie's, 13th December 1938, The William Ridout Collection of italian maiolica . . ., p. 25, first part of lot 129; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Henry S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 13.1 cm
Height: 26.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of cobalt
Inscription present: Circular with blue edge
Accession number: C.304-1991
Primary reference Number: 74343
Packing number: EURCER 93
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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