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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1375 - 1450; Classification(s): glazed earthenware, tile, moulding, calcareous earthenware, with designs outlined in black slip and coloured with white, blue and turquoise pitted glaze and red brown slip, with small areas of gilding; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 [C.566-1991]
Description: calcareous earthenware, with designs outlined in black slip and coloured with white, blue and turquoise pitted glaze and red brown slip, with small areas of gilding
Shape: pentagonal tile with slightly bevelled edges
Upper side: colours are separated by a thin black line of slip. A turquoise border frames a white palmette overlying a central gilded, polychrome rosette and pendant turquoise buds, all reserved in blue.
Under side: undecorated but with patches of plaster | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown tile glazed earthenware | Temporal: | name=late 14th Century - mid 15th century; start=1375; end=1450 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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