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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue and black under a clear glaze
Fritware, moulded, painted in blue and with black outlining under a clear, crazed glaze
Shape: tulip-shaped mouth on a tapering neck with handles attached to the neck and an embossed flattened circular body sitting on pedestal foot. Vessel sits at an eighty degree angle.
Exterior: a frieze of birds flying amongst clouds is painted on the tulip mouth, the shoulder and lower body; these are outlined in black and painted in reserve against a blue background. On the neck pointed blue leaves are also outlined in black and framed by concentric black lines. On the body coiled floral sprays with pointed leaves are outlined in black and coloured with blue. On the base panels of floral motifs are also outlined in black and coloured in blue. The handles are painted with diagonal black wavey lines. The underside of the base is glazed and there is no mark
Interior: not visible
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 31.2 cm
Weight: 1012 g
Width: 19.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century, Early-Mid
Circa
1600
-
1640
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( clear, crazed)
Rim
Diameter 2.5 cm
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Moulding : Fritware, moulded, painted in blue and black under a clear, crazed glaze
Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge
Inscription present: rectangular card label with string
Inscription present: rectangular card label with string
Accession number: C.485-1991
Primary reference Number: 75261
Old object number: ISCER 522
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 (2024) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75261 Accessed: 2024-12-23 10:28:07
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University of Cambridge}}
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