Artist: Unknown, pottery; Date(s): circa 1400 - 1500; Classification(s): lead-glazed earthenware, bowl, throwing, dark buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the interior and exterior except for the base; the interior incised and touched with copper-green under very thin lead-glaze.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.328-1991]
Description: Dark buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the interior and exterior except for the base; the interior incised and touched with copper-green under very thin lead-glaze. Circular, with shallow carinated sides, and slightly sloping centre, standing on a footring. Decorated in the centre with an incised stylised bird with a large splodge of green over its front and a thinner green outline round its back and tail. Round the edge at irregular intervals there are green splodges, two of which have run downwards.
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