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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with a white glaze, painted with lustre
Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, white, slightly crazed, glaze painted in yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: conical dish with wide, everted rim and a low foot ring.
Interior: all decoration is painted in lustre. On the lip a frieze of Arabic script (cursive) is enclosed above and below by concentric bands of differing thickness. On the body a roughly drawn pattern, radiating from a central dot in the base, consists of alternating panels of horizontal wavey lines and arabesques with a cross-hatched lozenge at their centre.
Exterior: rim decorated with a band of lustre. Radiating from the lower body, panels of interlocking scrolls are separated by a pair of vertical lines, both painted in lustre. Glaze continues to the lower body where it has a reddish tinge, probably resulting from reaction with the lustre. Oval adhesion at one point near rim marks where another vessel touched the dish during firing.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 7.6 cm
Weight: 1,031 g
Width: 34 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, slightly crazed, continues to the lower body where it has a reddish tinge, probably resulting from reaction with the lustre)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, slightly crazed)
Base
Diameter 13.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 34 cm
Throwing : Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, white, slightly crazed, glaze painted with yellow-brown lustre
Accession number: C.431-1991
Primary reference Number: 75064
Packing number: ISCER 642
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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