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Red-brown earthenware with cream slip, incised and painted decoration under a clear glaze
Red-brown wheel-thrown earthenware coated with a cream slip and incised decoration largely delimiting painted green, yellow and brown patterns under a clear glaze.
Shape: Carinated, bowl with plain rim and low foot ring.
Interior: coated in a cream slip with decoration formed through incised lines containing areas of colour pigment. Rim is painted yellow above a frieze on the upper body comprising cream scrolling foliage against a yellow background interspersed with green circles containing a cream palmette on a brown background. On the base, a criss-cross pattern of yellow and green petal shapes, dotted with brown, are painted against the cream slipped background.
Exterior: Cream slip runs down upper section of body.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 9.5 cm
Weight: 672 g
Width: 22.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century-13th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
1299
CE
Interior
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Decoration
composed of
pigment
( green, yellow and brown)
Rim
Diameter 21.7 cm
Base
Diameter 7.7 cm
Upper Exterior
Throwing : Red-brown wheel-thrown earthenware coated with cream slip and incised lines which largely delimit green, yellow and brown painted decoration under a clear glaze.
Accession number: C.550-1991
Primary reference Number: 75494
Packing number: ISCER 964
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75494 Accessed: 2024-11-05 03:34:02
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University of Cambridge}}
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