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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue and black under a clear glaze
Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black with turquoise spots under a clear slightly crazed glaze
Shape: cono-segmental bowl, thickly potted, with slightly everted rim sitting on a low foot ring
Interior: rim is dotted with blue. On the body a blue and black cross pattern is framed by two identical narrow friezes that contain alternating blue or black cross-hatch panels, the latter dotted with turquoise. A central blue rosette highlighted with black is painted on the base. Trivet scars on base indicate that a tripod was used to stack vessels in kiln.
Exterior: blue dots continue on the rim. On the body a frieze of blue swirls and dots is contained within pairs of concentric lines. Glaze runs over the lower body onto foot ring.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 10.5 cm
Weight: 707 g
Width: 21.8 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
14th/15th Century
Circa
1300
CE
-
1499
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( slightly crazed)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( runs over the lower body onto foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 21.8 cm
Base
Diameter 6.7 cm
Throwing : Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue and black with a clear slightly crazed glaze
Accession number: C.427-1991
Primary reference Number: 75052
Packing number: ISCER 543
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75052 Accessed: 2023-05-30 18:07:59
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-30 18:07:59|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-75052
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