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Fritware with white glaze painted in lustre
Buff fritware dish, wheel thrown, with an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze and yellow-brown lustre painted decoration.
Shape: dish with a flange rim and a low foot ring
Interior: a concentric band covers the rim, below a frieze of pseudo-calligraphy comprising vertical lines and dots interspersed with spirals. The central decoration comprises a dog and mounted horse whose harness is decorated with a peacock’s eye pattern and blanket is decorated with scrolls. The horse rider wears a headdress and a tunic decorated with spirals over trousers with a pattern of triangular dots. Both the body of the horse, and dog, are covered with large dots and small dashes. Scrolling vegetation, including solid palmettes, decorate the background. All decoration is painted in lustre.
Exterior: on the body, a frieze of simple repeating arabesques, painted with a single stroke, are separated by pairs of vertical lines and enclosed by concentric lines. Both are painted in lustre. Glaze runs over the body to a point just above or just below the start of the foot ring.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 5.7 cm
Weight: 407 g
Width: 23 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre)
glaze
( opaque white, slightly crazed; runs over the body to a point just above or just below the start of the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre)
glaze
( opaque, white, slightly crazed)
Rim
Diameter 23 cm
Base
Diameter 9.2 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque white, slightly crazed glaze and yellow-brown lustre painted decoration
Accession number: C.433-1991
Primary reference Number: 75082
Packing number: ISCER 638
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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