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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue under a clear glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue under a clear glaze with a greenish tinge.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with slightly in-turned rim sitting on a low foot ring.
Interior: On the body, palmettes, with alternating orientation, contain lines and a stylised bird. On the base, a roundel contains a lotus flower head and leaves on long stems. Glaze is pooled slightly in the base.
Exterior: a pair of concentric lines on the neck sits above a frieze with panels containing stylised flower heads and dots. Glaze runs over the surface to a point above the foot ring on the lower body.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 6.4 cm
Weight: 263 g
Width: 13.5 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
15th century
Circa
1400
CE
-
1499
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( clear, runs over the surface to a point above the foot ring on the lower body)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue)
glaze
( clear)
Rim
Diameter 13 cm
Base
Diameter 5 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, painted in blue under a clear glaze with a greenish tinge.
Accession number: C.542-1991
Primary reference Number: 75474
Packing number: ISCER 540
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/75474 Accessed: 2023-06-05 08:50:38
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75474
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-05 08:50:38|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-75474
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_542_1991_281_29.jpg"
alt="Bowl"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: E.P.467
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