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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear glaze
Buff fritware, moulded, painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear, slightly crazed glaze
Shape: polygonal cup standing on a splayed stem foot
Interior: the rim is painted black above ten wedge shaped panels, containing alternating tri-partite designs, which radiate from a central blue dot containing a rosette. One set of panels contain Arabic script painted in black on the upper section (where it is floriated and kufic) and lower section (cursive), are separated by a narrow blue band. The other panels contain blue and black cross-hatching in the upper section and blue dots with black lines on the lower section, separated by a narrow band containing turquoise leaves reserved in blue. Glaze runs over stem and onto base, with a spot of glaze on the underside.
Exterior: a panel design, containing black or blue dots and black vertical lines, radiates from a pair of concentric black lines on the lower body. The glaze runs over the foot ring, where a series of green dots are painted. A small spot of glaze is present on the interior foot ring.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 9.4 cm
Weight: 257 g
Width: 13.7 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
14th Century
Circa
1300
CE
-
1399
CE
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue, turquoise)
glaze
( clear, crazed)
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( clear, crazed runs over stem and unevenly on base, with a dot on the underside of the base)
Rim
Diameter 13.7 cm
Base
Diameter 5.6 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, moulded, painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear, slightly crazed glaze
Accession number: C.450-1991
Primary reference Number: 75140
Packing number: ISCER 537
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75140 Accessed: 2023-05-31 17:35:00
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-31 17:35:00|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-75140
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