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Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Unidentified Northern Lazio pottery
(Possibly)
Late Medieval, lead-glazed earthenware jug, painted in manganese and green with undulating black-edged green lines.
Pale buff earthenware, the base and short distance above it unglazed, the rest thinly covered with yellowish lead-glaze. Painted underglaze in dark manganese, and copper-green which has run. Shape 2. Swelling ovoid body with flat base, cylindrical neck, applied folded spout and strap handle. The spout and handle are flanked by two vertical manganese lines forming side panels, each occupied by two wide black-edged green lines undulating on both sides, and one undulating on one side. The lower part of the body and the neck are encircled by two manganese bands. On both sides of the spout, and below it on the front, there are horizontal lines of alternate colours, and on the handle, four groups of three manganese horizontal lines alternate with four wider green.
History note: Signor Avvocato Marcioni or Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto; Sotheby's, 16 February 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, probably part of lot 64. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 105; H.S. Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 19.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
Medieval
Circa
1200
CE
-
1300
CE
The decoration resembles the heraldic field described as barry nebuly or ondy, but probably had no heraldic significance.A variant of it appears on C.17-1991.
The earlier ownership of this jug probably indicates that it was made in Orvieto, but the decoration also occurs on vessels from Rome, and Viterbo in Northern Lazio. A jug similarly decorated but with spots instead of continuous colour between the lines, was recovered from cistern C of the Palazzetto Faiena in Orvieto.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark manganese and copper-green)
Body
Diameter 14.4 cm
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 17.1 cm
except the base and short distance above it
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Inscription present: circular with blue border, printed in blue `WILLIAM RIDOUT COLLECTION' and inscribed in blue-black ink `O./88.'
Inscription present: brown tie-on
Accession number: C.16-1991
Primary reference Number: 47125
Packing number: EURCER 951
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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