Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1400 - 1500; Classification(s): porcelain, bowl, throwing, pottery, thrown, decorated in underglaze blue, crudely made; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.705-1991]
Description: Bowl. Porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. The bowl is uneven, with flared sides resting on a low foot with flat, recessed, glazed base. It is decorated on the outside with two fishes with a lined border, and on the inside with a central medallion of a fish within a double-lined border and a triangle work border round the rim, all in underglaze-blue under a crackle glaze. Crudely made.
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