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Red-brown earthenware with cream slip, painted and incised decoration under a clear glaze
Red-brown wheel thrown earthenware coated with cream slip, painted and incised decoration under a clear glaze.
Shape: segmental bowl with a plain rim, seated on a low foot ring.
Interior: entire surface is coated with a cream slip with three friezes of painted and incised decoration, each are separated by concentric bands of green or brown. On upper body roundels painted in alternating green or brown colouring, defined by incised lines, and surrounded by incised scrolls. On the lower body, alternating green and brown petals form a repeating quatrefoil pattern. On the base, concentric scalloped incised lines are emphasised by alternating green and brown circles to provide the appearance of a single flower.
Exterior: Remains of a white slip under a green glaze on the upper three quarter of the body.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 13.1 cm
Weight: 1, 475 g
Width: 29.5 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
(1991)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
12th-13th Century
Circa
1100
CE
-
1299
CE
Interior
composed of
glaze
( clear)
slip
( cream)
pigment
( green, brown)
Upper Exterior
composed of
glaze
( clear)
slip
( cream)
Rim
Diameter 29.5 cm
Base
Diameter 9.6 cm
Throwing : Red-brown wheel thrown earthenware coated with cream slip, painted and incised decoration under a clear glaze
Accession number: C.556-1991
Primary reference Number: 75515
Packing number: EUCER 477
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/75515 Accessed: 2022-05-23 12:30:50
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