Maiolica jug with a castle on a hill

An image of Maiolica. Part of a jug. Unknown maker, Italy, Tuscany, Siena. Bulbous body with a short narrow neck which expands slightly towards the rim, and is pinched at the front to form a lip; the handle is missing. On the front, there is a castle on a hill painted in blue and manganese with groups of three blue dots in the background, surrounded by an oval line and a green and yellow bound laurel wreath with blue and yellow `bull's eye' motifs at the top and bottom. On either side, wavy manganese ribbons extend towards the back of the jug. Earthenware, tin-glazed. Painted in blue, green, orange, and manganese, height, whole, 34.5 cm, diameter, base, 14.5 cm, width, at widest, 25.4 cm, circa 1490-1520. Renaissance

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Maiolica. Part of a jug. Unknown maker, Italy, Tuscany, Siena. Bulbous body with a short narrow neck which expands slightly towards the rim, and is pinched at the front to form a lip; the handle is missing. On the front, there is a castle on a hill painted in blue and manganese with groups of three blue dots in the background, surrounded by an oval line and a green and yellow bound laurel wreath with blue and yellow `bull's eye' motifs at the top and bottom. On either side, wavy manganese ribbons extend towards the back of the jug. Earthenware, tin-glazed. Painted in blue, green, orange, and manganese, height, whole, 34.5 cm, diameter, base, 14.5 cm, width, at widest, 25.4 cm, circa 1490-1520. Renaissance

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Accession Number: C.52-1927
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 527.83kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:03:06 09:44:17

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15th Century 16th Century architectural architecture bulb bulbous castles earthenware Fitz_AA glazed hills Italian jug laurel leaves laurel wreath laurels maiolica pottery Quattrocento Renaissance Sienese School tin-glazed

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