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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black and blue under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, with black and blue painting under a turquoise, slightly crazed glaze.
Shape: bi-conical bowl, finely potted, with plain rim and moderately high foot ring.
Interior: on the rim, a black dentilated pattern is highlighted in blue. On the body, a radiating pattern comprising six panels separated by black vertical friezes, with blue edging, featuring Arabic (cursive) inscriptions painted in reserve. Each panels contains an arabesque flanked by roughly painted, long-tailed birds and are framed on the upper body by scrolling vegetation, all painted in black. Glaze covers surface unevenly in a section of the base.
Exterior: the rim is painted with a black band while the body is decorated with vertical black water weeds. Glaze runs evenly over the body, ending at the carination.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 9.4 cm
Weight: 370 g
Width: 21.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
Circa
1200
-
1299
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 21.9 cm
Base
Diameter 8.8 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, with black and blue painting under a turquoise, slightly crazed glaze
Accession number: C.426-1991
Primary reference Number: 75050
Packing number: ISCER 598
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 (2025) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75050 Accessed: 2025-05-20 23:53:11
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University of Cambridge}}
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