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Potter: Unknown
Fritware with white glaze painted with lustre
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque, white, slightly crazed glaze painted with yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: cono-segmental bowl with a plain rim and foot ring
Interior: On the rim, hemispherical cartouches containing kneeling figures are separated by friezes of Arabic script (kufic). On the body, a series of roughly spherical cartouches each contain a seated figure. The figures in both cartouches are roughly painted in reserve lustre; and wear a spotted robe and a headdress. Around the spherical cartouches detailed arabesques and half palmettes containing a cross-hatch pattern are painted in lustre.
Exterior: a simple, repeating scrolling pattern is contained above and below by concentric bands; both painted in lustre. The glaze covers the surface to the mid 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: 8.1 cm
Weight: 303 g
Width: 19.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century, Late
Circa
1179
CE
-
1198
CE
Interior
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre painting)
glaze
( opaque, white, slightly crazed)
Exterior Body
composed of
oxide colour
( lustre painting)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( opaque, white, slightly crazed glaze runs to a mid point on the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 19.7 cm
Base
Diameter 7.5 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware bowl, wheel thrown, with an opaque, white, slightly crazed glaze painted with yellow-brown lustre
Inscription present: friezes of script are separated by hemi-spherical cartouches containing seated figures
Inscription present: Circular paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.447-1991
Primary reference Number: 75129
Packing number: ISCER 999
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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