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Potter: Unknown
Red brown earthenware with cream slip, incised and painted decoration largely under a clear glaze
Red-brown wheel thrown earthenware coated with a cream slip, incised and painted in green, brown and yellow largely covered with a clear glaze.
Shape: Thickly potted bowl with everted flange rim and slightly concave disc base.
Interior: Cream slip over interior with painted triangles on everted rim, alternating green and yellow in colour, enclosed within incised lines and separated by a brown dot. Neck has alternating panels of green and brown painted decoration enclosed within semi-circular incised lines; these panels are separated by smaller areas of cream slip. Body has further panel decoration with alternating horseshoe and bull’s eye designs coloured in green, yellow and brown, enclosed by incised lines. These panels radiate from a central roundel containing painted Arabic epigraphic inscription.
Exterior: Undecorated except for splashes of glaze.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 8 cm
Weight: 806 g
Width: 24.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th Century
Circa
1100
-
1199
Interior
composed of
glaze
( clear)
slip
( cream)
pigment
( green, yellow, brown)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( splashed, irregular)
Rim
Diameter 21 cm
Base
Diameter 7.4 cm
Throwing : Red brown earthenware with cream slip, incised and painted decoration largely under a clear glaze
Inscription present: oval cream paper label with blue border
Accession number: C.551-1991
Primary reference Number: 75496
Packing number: ISCER 952
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) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75496 Accessed: 2024-12-22 08:12:35
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 08:12:35|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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