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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black and dark blue under a turquoise glaze.
Shape: T-shaped flat rim above a straight neck descending via a gentle carination onto a conical body and a low foot ring.
Interior: the rim is painted dark blue. The body is painted with black scrolling foliage with curving tendrils and small leaves; this pattern is enclosed by a thin and thick concentric band on the neck.
Exterior: similar black scrolling foliage is painted on the body, again enclosed within concentric bands. Glaze runs over lower body and onto 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: 10 cm
Weight: 544 g
Width: 20.5 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
13th-14th Century
Circa
1200
-
1399
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, crazed, runs over lower body and onto the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 20.5 cm
Base
Diameter 8.7 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, probably wheel thrown, painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Inscription present: oval paper label with gold edging
Accession number: C.468-1991
Primary reference Number: 75202
Packing number: ISCER 549
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/75202 Accessed: 2023-05-29 21:29:27
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75202
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-29 21:29:27|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-75202
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_468_1991_281_29.jpg"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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Accession Number: E.P.467
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