IDENTIFIERS
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id:	47143
accession number:	C.20-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale yellowish-buff earthenware; the interior and exterior covered with clear lead-glaze; base unglazed. Painted underglaze in black and copper-green.
Shape 3. Swelling ovoid body with flat base, sloping tubular spout attached by a loop to the cylindrical section with a depression on each side.
The sides are decorated with scrolling multipartite leaves reserved in a green ground with two black bands above and below. On the neck there are curved green strokes between two narrow curved black strokes; on the spout, horizontal lines of alternate colours; and on the handle, three black lines alternating with wide green.
object type: Late Medieval, lead-glazed earthenware ewer, painted underglaze in black and green decorated with scrolling leaves.
title:	ewer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purportedly excavated at Orvieto. Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47143

PEOPLE
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Reitlinger, Henry Scipio




TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1200 - 1300
creation date earliest:	1200
creation date latest:	1300
culture:	13th Century
culture:	Medieval

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.8



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Oltre il frammento, forme e decori della miolica medievale orvietana, Il recupero della collezione Del Pelo Pardi
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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