Renaissance maiolica cup with St Francis

An image of Maiolica. Cup with one handle. St Francis. Unknown potter, perhaps Umbria, Deruta. Circular with slightly carinated sides, one trefoil-shaped lug, and a narrow base. Inside, St Francis holding a rosary kneels in front of a Cross. Round the sides are two narrow blue bands and a wider orange band between pairs of blue, and, on the rim, oblique blue strokes. The handle is striped in yellow. Outside are eight alternately blue and yellow vertical stripes. Earthenware, tin-glazed(?) creamy-white inside and outside; base unglazed. Painted in blue and dark yellow, height, whole, 4.5 cm, diameter, rim, 10.8 cm, width, whole, 13.3 cm, circa 1500-1600. Renaissance.

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Maiolica. Cup with one handle. St Francis. Unknown potter, perhaps Umbria, Deruta. Circular with slightly carinated sides, one trefoil-shaped lug, and a narrow base. Inside, St Francis holding a rosary kneels in front of a Cross. Round the sides are two narrow blue bands and a wider orange band between pairs of blue, and, on the rim, oblique blue strokes. The handle is striped in yellow. Outside are eight alternately blue and yellow vertical stripes. Earthenware, tin-glazed(?) creamy-white inside and outside; base unglazed. Painted in blue and dark yellow, height, whole, 4.5 cm, diameter, rim, 10.8 cm, width, whole, 13.3 cm, circa 1500-1600. Renaissance.

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Accession Number: C.205-1991
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 962 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 633.96kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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16th Century Christianity circular cream cross cup Deruta drinking vessel earthenware Fitz_AA Franciscan friar glazed habit handle handled Italian liturgical maiolica male mendicant monks orange Other Keywords painted pottery religion religious Renaissance rosary rosary beads round Saint Francis of Assisi saints St Francis Umbrian School vessel

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