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Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Unidentified Tuscan pottery
(Possibly)
Maiolica two-handled bowl, painted in manganese and green with, on the inside, a peacock.
Reddish-buff earthenware, the interior and handles tin-glazed greyish-white, the exterior lead-glazed pale brownish-yellow, which has run over onto the base. Painted in dark manganese and copper-green.
Shape 34. Circular with deep sides, curving outwards from the base and then upwards almost vertically to the flat projecting rim; two small broad strap handles on opposing sides.
Inside, a peacock faces in profile to right with its tail folded, and its body and wings decorated with rosettes, one of which forms its eye. On the right there is a stylised plant with a lobed leaf and two flowers, similar to the motifs on the bird. Above its head, a tendril sprouts from the edge of the border, and by its beak there is a circular stylised flower. The sides are decorated with a row of green reversed Ss, with two black horizontal bands below and one above, and the rim with alternating groups of manganese and green radiating stripes.
History note: Elia Volpi, Florence; Durlacher Brothers, London, from whom purchased in November 1920 by F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 35.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
lead-glaze
Interior, Handles
composed of
tin-glaze
Foot
Diameter 16.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 30.4 cm
Body
Accession number: C.82-1927
Primary reference Number: 47273
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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