IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75135
accession number:	C.449-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 June 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff fritware dish, wheel thrown, with an opaque white, glaze on the interior and a pitted blue glaze on the exterior both crazed and painted with yellow-brown lustre
Shape: hemispherical dish with flange rim, sitting on a foot ring
Interior: the rim is covered with a gold band below which, on the lip, a repeating frieze of spotted, leaping cheetahs is painted in reserve against a lustred background containing fine scrolling vegetation. Painted in lustre, a fleurs-de lis pattern contained by concentric bands forms a narrow frieze around the upper body. The central decoration comprises two opposing seated figures painted in reserve against a lustred background containing birds, textured half palmettes and palmettes on scrolling vines, commas and spirals. The figures have fine features and wear headdresses and robes decorated with a repeating peacock’s eye pattern (left hand figure) or scrolls (right hand figure). Below the figures, again in reserve lustre, three fish swim surrounded by scrolling commas. Spots of blue colouring are present at irregular intervals on the body and running over sections of the lip.
Exterior: A band of lustre covers the rim, the remainder is undecorated except for the blue glaze which covers the body and runs over areas of the foot ring.
object type: Fritware with blue and white glaze painted in lustre
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:	http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75135

PEOPLE
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opposing figures

SUBJECTS
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cheetah
cheetah



TECHNIQUES
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Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque white, glaze on the interior and a pitted blue glaze on the exterior both crazed and painted with yellow-brown lustre
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1200 - 1220
creation date earliest:	1200
creation date latest:	1220
culture:	early 13th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 493

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 24.4



CITATIONS
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Persian Lustre Ware
Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East
Ceramics from Islamic Lands
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