Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1100 - 1200; Classification(s): stoneware, bowl, throwing, thrown, covered with transparent glaze, decorated with incised marks; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 [C.640-1991]
Description: Bowl. Light-grey stoneware bowl, covered with splashed, blue, crackle glaze. The deep bowl is thickly potted, with gently swelling sides, an incurved mouth, an almost pointed well and strongly made footrim with recessed base incised with circular wheel marks. Thin grey-green glaze is on the lip and unevenly above the footrim, the rest is covered with blue crackle glaze with one purple splash inside.