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Red-brown earthenware with cream slip and green paint under a clear glaze with incised decoration
Red-brown earthenware, wheel-thrown, coated with cream slip and painted in green under a clear glaze with incised decoration.
Shape: Finely potted carinated bowl with a plain rim standing on slightly concave disc base.
Interior: Cream slip over entire surface, green colouring painted in scallops on rim. Green cross-hatch decoration forms a band over neck and in incised lines forms a band in upper body, both enclosed by green painted concentric lines. Lower body is decorated with groups of three or four green dots combined with incised triangles with interior scrolls.
Exterior: Cream slip runs unevenly over neck with three ‘tongues’ in green at regular intervals extending over carination between neck and body.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 392 g
Width: 18.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century
Circa
1100
-
1199
Typical ‘Amol’ ware shape
Interior
composed of
slip
( cream)
glaze
Decoration
composed of
pigment
( green)
Upper Exterior
composed of
slip
( irregular, cream)
glaze
Rim
Diameter 18.3 cm
Base
Diameter 6.5 cm
Throwing : Red-brown earthenware, wheel thrown, with cream slip and green painted under a clear glaze with incised decoration
Accession number: C.418-1991
Primary reference Number: 74986
Packing number: ISCER 992
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/74986 Accessed: 2024-04-27 03:48:14
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.31-2013
Accession Number: E.277.1932
Accession Number: O.5-2017
Accession Number: E.132.1903
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