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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear glaze
Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black, blue and turquoise slip under a clear glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl on a narrow foot ring
Interior: rim is painted black under which a narrow frieze of alternate leaves and circles outlined in black and coloured with blue pigment or turquoise slip respectively. The body is covered with a radiating design comprising alternating wide and narrow wedge-shaped panels. On the wide panels, lozenges and palmettes are outlined in black, coloured in blue and contain leaves painted in turquoise slip. These shapes are set against a background of cross-hatching and foliage with alternate leaves painted with blue slip. The narrow panels are tripartite containing two friezes, of large blue and smaller black dots with black vertical lines, separated by a blue band containing foliage painted with turquoise slip. Glaze runs unevenly over lower body and in some areas onto the foot ring.
Exterior: A broad frieze of blue dots that often run to form lines is surrounded by black dots and black vertical lines, all enclosed within pairs of black concentric bands.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 10.3 cm
Weight: 504 g
Width: 21.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century, Late-14th Century
Circa
1275
-
1399
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black, turquoise)
glaze
( clear)
slip
( discrete application of slip results in areas with a slightly raised profile)
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( clear, runs unevenly over lower body and in some areas onto the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 21.4 cm
Base
Diameter 6 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black, blue and turquoise under a clear glaze
Accession number: C.461-1991
Primary reference Number: 75178
Packing number: ISCER 593
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75178 Accessed: 2024-12-23 05:12:11
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