Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware coated in a brown slip painted brown and turquoise under a yellow glaze
Buff earthenware, wheel thrown, coated in a light brown slip, painted in brown and turquoise under yellow, slightly crazed glaze.
Shape: thickly potted, plain rim and straight neck descending via a carination onto a conical bowl that sits on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: rim is painted at regular intervals with dashed lines, while on the neck triangles outlined in brown contain lozenges with a turquoise central dot. On the body, a radiating pattern of curvaceous vertical panels is contained between two horizsontal friezes comprising brown crosses. The panel design alternates between a brown zigzag line, contained within vertical lines and delimiting turquoise dots, and brown crosses. On the base, a roundel contains brown semi-ovals with turquoise dots around an unglazed central area. Three scar marks on the lower body indicate the use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln.
Exterior: on the neck, a frieze of brown triangles contains turquoise dots. Glaze covers the surface to a mid-point on the lower body, while the brown slip covers the surface to the foot ring.
Notes
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Legal notes
H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
Height: 11.2 cm
Weight: 1523 g
Width: 26.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1991)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1899
CE
Components of the work
Interior
composed of
pigment
( brown, turquoise)
slip
( light brown)
glaze
( yellow)
Exterior Neck
composed of
pigment
( brown, turquoise)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( light brown, covers surface to foot ring)
glaze
( yellow)
Base
Diameter 10 cm
Rim
Diameter 26.7 cm
Exterior Upper Body
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, wheel thrown, covered with a light brown slip painted in brown and turquoise under yellow, slightly crazed glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper supermarket modern pricing sticker; adjacent to the remains of a large rectangular paper label that has been removed
- Text: 797990
- Location: Interior neck
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with blue edging; overlies a circular paper label with scalloped edge that is blank
- Text: 2B
- Location: Exterior lower body
- Method of creation: Hand written in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.571-1991
Primary reference Number: 75548
Packing number: ISCER 579
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 14 October 2015
Last processed: Tuesday 29 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
