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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with white and blue glaze, painted in lustre
Pale buff fritware fragment, probably wheel thrown, with white and blue slightly crazed glazes painted in yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: two joining roughly semi-circular fragments form base of dish or bowl sitting on a low foot ring.
Interior: seated figure painted in reserve against a lustred background decorated with scrolling vines and contained within a concentric circle. The figure wears a hat and robe the latter decorated with groups of three dots. A small dot of blue is splashed on the figure’s head.
Exterior: coated with a blue glaze which runs unevenly over the lower body towards 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: 2.8 cm
Weight: 254 g
Width: 16.5 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
Late 12th Century
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
glaze
( blue, crazed)
Interior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
glaze
( white, crazed)
Base
Diameter 13 cm
Throwing : Pale buff fritware fragment, probably wheel thrown, with white and blue slightly crazed glazes painted in yellow-brown lustre
Accession number: C.439-1991
Primary reference Number: 75095
Packing number: ISCER 633
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Bowl fragment" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75095 Accessed: 2023-02-05 22:47:57
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