IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75100 accession number: C.440-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: buff fritware, star shaped tile, mould made, covered with a white crazed and slightly pitted glaze painted in yellow-brown lustre Decorated surface: painted in reserve against a lustred background a bird (possibly an eagle) is depicted in profile with spots of lustre on its’ body and scrolling leaves in the background. On the edge of the tile, an area left undecorated in lustre forms a white contour, that echoes its' star shape. Glaze and lustre runs over the tile edges. Reverse surface: accidental spots of glaze and lustre, but otherwise undecorated. object type: fritware with white glaze painted in lustre title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75100 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird TECHNIQUES ---------- buff fritware, star shaped tile, mould made, covered with a white crazed and slightly pitted glaze painted in yellow-brown lustre moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1175 - 1225 creation date earliest: 1175 creation date latest: 1225 culture: 12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 13.1 dimension: Weight units: g value: 271 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.7 CITATIONS -------- Islamic Works of Art, Carpets and Textiles Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection Persian Lustre Ware Islamic Tiles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_440_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_440_1991.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_440_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_440_1991.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels