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Potter: Unknown
Brown earthenware with cream slip incised under an amber glaze
Brown wheel-thrown earthenware coated with a cream slip which is incised under an amber glaze.
Shape: Tall conical bowl with plain rim and steeply sloping sides with a horizontal ridge on lower body exterior, descending via a sharp carination onto a foot ring with slightly flaring profile.
Interior: Yellow surface colour produced from a thick cream slip coating under an amber glaze. On the upper body a pair of concentric lines frames a frieze of paired leaves or petals surrounded by scrolls. On the lower body, a concentric scalloped line is located above three fish with features including eyes and fins. On the base, within concentric lines, an incised palmette is surrounded by scrolling lines.
Exterior: rim is glazed but with no underlying slip, producing a dark brown colour. Remainder of exterior surface is yellow in colour but slightly different in tone and glassier in appearance to vessel interior, possibly as the result of a thinner cream slip under the amber glaze. On the upper body two concentric lines enclose a frieze of fishes, surrounded by scrolls. On the lower body, immediately above the carination, a repeating vegetal pattern of abstract palmettes and scrolls is incised.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 16.8 cm
Weight: 1,254 g
Width: 26.2 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
Probably
1300
CE
-
1399
CE
Rim
Diameter 25.4 cm
Base
Diameter 8.5 cm
amber, glassier on exterior surface
Glaze
cream, possibly thicker on inside than outside of vessel
Slip
Earthenware
Throwing
: Brown wheel-thrown earthenware coated with a cream slip which is incised under an amber glaze
Slip-coating
Glazing
Incising
Accession number: C.506-1991
Primary reference Number: 75334
Packing number: ISCER 60
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 (2022) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75334 Accessed: 2022-12-08 18:50:54
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-12-08 18:50:54|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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