Maiolica arcaica jug

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Maiolica arcaica. Jug. Unidentified Orvieto pottery, Italy, Umbria. Shape 7. Ovoid with flat base; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly towards the rim; broad strap handle; spout made from a strip of clay, folded and pressed to the neck. On the front under the spout, a grotesque devil with a striped body, long tail and four horns on its head, faces to the left holding out one of its hands. One side of the jug bears the word `SaS' (Sanctus) in manganese, enclosed by two green lines forming a curved rectangular frame, open on the side nearest the devil. The other side bears the word `IohS' (Johannes), similarly framed. Cream earthenware, the lower part and interior are lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the rest is tin-glazed off-white; the tin-glaze has crazed; painted in manganese and copper-green. Height, whole, 22.7 cm, diameter, base, 8.9 cm, diameter, body, 14.3 cm, width, whole, 17.6 cm, circa 1300-1350. Medieval.

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Accession Number: C.49-1927
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
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Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2000:01:01 00:08:02

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14th Century earthenware Fitz_AA glazed handle handled initial Italian jug Late Medieval lead-glazed lettering letters maiolica manganese Medieval oval ovoid pottery spout spouted tin-glazed Trecento Umbrian School

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