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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Shape: segmental bowl with a flat rim sitting on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: all decoration is painted in black, with a band on the rim and a frieze of lozenge shapes contained within concentric lines on the inner edge of the lip. On the body, a dotted roundel encloses contoured fillers containing dots, dashes and, at one point, a dotted circle. Leaves sprout from this roundel covering the base; some of these leaves form a circle which contains further dots. Slightly imperfect, with a crack on the carination between lip and body, that occurred during firing.
Exterior: black band continues on the exterior under which a concentric black line is painted on the upper body. Turquoise glaze runs over the exterior surface to the lower body, with spots of clearer glaze continuing 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: 7.4 cm
Weight: 660 g
Width: 26.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century, Early
Circa
1200
CE
-
1220
CE
Raqqa ware
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( runs over the exterior surface to the lower body, with spots of clearer glaze continuing onto the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black)
glaze
( turquoise)
Rim
Diameter 26.5 cm
Base
Diameter 8.9 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in black under a turquoise glaze
Inscription present: circular paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.522-1991
Primary reference Number: 75414
Packing number: ISCER 660
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 (2025) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75414 Accessed: 2025-07-13 20:59:01
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-07-13 20:59:01|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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