IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75086
accession number:	C.435-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown with white and pitted blue glaze, both crazed and painted in yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: hemispherical dish with a flange rim and a low foot ring.
Interior: decoration entirely in reserve against a lustred background. On the rim, a frieze of small circles is enclosed above and below by concentric lines; blue pigment from the exterior glaze forms irregular spots of colour. The central decoration features a horseman, seated on a harnessed horse adorned with a starred blanket. The horseman wears a hat and a tunic; the latter decorated with groups of dots that match the larger groups of dots on the horse’s body. The background contains scrolling vines with palmette leaves.
Exterior: a lustre band decorates the rim, while the blue glaze on the body extends to the upper foot ring.
object type: Fritware with white and blue glaze under lustre paint
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Henry Scipio Reitlinger
creditline: H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75086

PEOPLE
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horseman




TECHNIQUES
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Pinkish-buff fritware, wheel thrown with white and pitted blue glaze, both crazed and painted in yellow-brown lustre
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1850 - 1950
creation date earliest:	1850
creation date latest:	1950
culture:	19th Century-20th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 5.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 462

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 25.5



CITATIONS
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Islamic Works of Art, Carpets and Textiles
Early Islamic Pottery
Persian Lustre Ware
Ceramics from Islamic Lands
Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East
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