IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47278 accession number: C.88-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale yellowish-buff earthenware, the interior of the neck and the exterior of the foot are lead-glazed pale brownish-yellow, the base is unglazed, and the rest is tin-glazed off-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green. Shape 17. Elongated ovoid body with short cylindrical neck, which expands towards the rim ans is pinched at the front to form a lip; solid pedestal foot; loop handle made from a roll of clay. The front is decorated with a long-tailed bird facing to the right, its neck and head curving downwards towards its front foot. It is outlined in manganese, partially filled in with green and green hatching. On each side of the handle there are Vs between two sets of three manganese vertical lines. Above and below, the body is encircled by two manganese bands. Round the neck there is a green chain with a horizontal manganese band above; on the handle, four oblique manganese stripes with two green stripes between two of them, one between the next two, and one at the bottom. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Presumed excavated at Orvieto; Elia Volpi, Florence; Durlacher Brothers, London, from whom purchased in November 1920 by F. Leverton Harris (1864-1926). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47278 PEOPLE ------------------- Volpi, Elia Harris, Frederick Leverton SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1275 - 1375 creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1375 culture: 13th Century culture: 14th Century culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.4 CITATIONS -------- Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - I The Leverton Harris Collection Guide to the European Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The medieval glazed pottery of Lazio La Liguria e la ceramica medioevale nel mediterraneo Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 1909 Tra Collezionismo e Tutela, Connoisseur, antiquari e la ceramica medievale orvietana --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/C_88_1927.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 713 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/mid_C_88_1927.jpg height: 718 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/C_88_1927.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 713 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/preview_C_88_1927.jpg height: 359 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/431/778/large_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/431/778/mid_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.88-1927_200908_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/431/778/preview_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/431/778/C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/463/large_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1471 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/463/mid_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 718 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/463/C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 6306 pixels width: 4390 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/463/preview_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 359 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/463/C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 6306 pixels width: 4390 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/48/253/large_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/48/253/mid_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.88-1927_200908_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/48/253/preview_C_88_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels