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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late-medieval maiolica jug, partly lead-glazed and partly tin-glazed and painted in black and green with a coat-of arms flanked by applied pine cones
Pinkish-buff earthenware (little visible); the interior is lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the exterior is tin-glazed pale beige. Painted in black and green. Shape 19. Squat piriform body with short cylindrical neck, expanding towards the rim which is pinched at the front to form a lip; loop handle of shallow D section.
The front is decorated with a relief shield bearing a saddle-backed boar and above it the letters `A' (or `R') and `n', between two relief pine-cones. On each side of the handle there are oblique dashes between vertical black lines. Below are two horizontal black bands; on the neck, a green chain with two black bands above; and on the handle, horizontal stripes of alternate colours.
History note: Presumed excavated in Orvieto; Elia Volpi, Florence; Durlacher Brothers, London, from whom purchased in November 1920 by F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leveton Harris Bequest, 1926
Height: 12.4 cm
Width: 10.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
Although the animals which occur in shield-shaped and oval panels on the front of jugs of this form are heraldic, it is not clear whether they were intended for arms or not. It is possible that some were crests, such as the eagle, stag, dog, and snake representing branches of the Monaldeschi of Orvieto. A shield charged with a saddle-backed boar and the initials 'A' (or 'R') and 'D' above was identified tentatively by Otto Mazzucato as that of the Cancellieri family.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( copper-green and black)
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 10.2 cm
Base
Diameter 7.1 cm
Inscription present: or 78
Accession number: C.47-1927
Primary reference Number: 47233
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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