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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with blue and white glaze painted with lustre
Buff fritware fragment, wheel thrown, with blue (pitted) and white glaze, both crazed and decorated with yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: roughly rectangular fragment forms profile of a dish with wide, everted rim and a low foot ring.
Interior: on the lip painted lustre forms a frieze of scrolling vegetation, enclosed, above and below, by concentric bands both of which are splashed with blue from the exterior glaze. On the body, painted in reserve against a lustre background, a frieze depicts a seated figure wearing a robe decorated with series of three dots. The figure is flanked either side by arabesques painted in lustre. On the base another figure, also painted in reserve against a lustred background but only partly visible due the fragmentary nature of the dish, wears a headdress.
Exterior: a band of lustre decorates the rim and a frieze of Arabic script (probably cursive) is painted faintly in lustre on the upper body. The blue glaze covers the surface unevenly to a half way point on 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: 10.2 cm
Weight: 699 g
Width: 21.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( blue, pitted, crazed)
oxide colour
( lustre)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( crazed, white)
oxide colour
( painted lustre)
Base
Diameter 10 cm
Rim
Diameter 24 cm
Exterior Body
Throwing : Buff fritware fragment, wheel thrown, with blue (pitted) and white glaze, both crazed and decorated with yellow-brown lustre
Accession number: C.438-1991
Primary reference Number: 75093
Packing number: ISCER 608
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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