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Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Unidentified Lazio pottery
(Possibly)
Late Medieval, lead-glazed earthenware jug, painted underglaze in manganese and green, decorated with undulating green lines.
Pale buff earthenware; the interior, base and a short distance above it unglazed; the rest thinly covered with yellowish lead-glazed. Painted underglaze in dark manganese and copper-green.
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 lines forming side panels, each occupied by two black-edged green lines undulating on both sides, with above and below, one undulating on one side. The lower part of the body and the neck are encircled by two horizontal manganese bands. On both sides of the spout and below it there are horizontal lines of alternate colours, and on the handle, two groups of three manganese horizontal lines alternate with three wider green.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware. probably part of lot 105; H.S. Reitlinger (d. 1950), The Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead from whom transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 19.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) 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 has no heraldic significance. A variant of it occurs on C.16-1991. It was probably made in Orvieto as a jug decorated similarly but with spots instead of continuous colour between the undulating lines was recovered from cistern C of the Palazzetto Faina, Orvieto. However, comparable jugs were made in Northern Lazio. Vessels with undulating decoration have been found in Viterbo, and Rome.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Body
Diameter 15 cm
Base
Diameter 7.8 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 16 cm
except the base and a short distance above it
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: in a circle
Accession number: C.17-1991
Primary reference Number: 47130
Packing number: EURCER 470
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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