IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47307 accession number: C.89-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jug. Pale yellowish-buff or cream earthenware. The interior and exterior of the foot are lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the base is unglazed, and the rest is tin-glazed ivory-buff. Painted in manganese and copper-green. Shape 17. Elongated ovoid body with short cylindrical neck which expands towards the rim and is pinched at the front to form a lip; solid pedestal foot; loop handle made from a roll of clay. On the front, an ostrich-like bird faces to the right, its neck and head curving down towards the ground in front of its feet. Above its head, a green lozenge-shaped bloom hangs from a branch. The handle is flanked by a vertical row of curved and hooked lines between two sets of three vertical manganese lines. Above and below are two horizontal manganese bands; on the neck, a green chain with two horizontal manganese bands above; on the handle, diagonal stripes of alternate colours. object type: Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with an ostrich-like bird, bands and stripes. 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); bequeathed by him 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/47307 PEOPLE ------------------- Volpi, Elia Harris, Frederick Leverton SUBJECTS ------------------- ostrich-like bird ostrich-like 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: 29.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum 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 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica 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/aa20/C_89_1927.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 448 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_89_1927.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 448 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_89_1927.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 448 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_89_1927.jpg height: 424 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/472/large_C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1445 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/472/mid_C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 706 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/472/C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 6307 pixels width: 4468 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/472/preview_C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 353 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/472/C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 6307 pixels width: 4468 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/35/large_C_89_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/640/35/mid_C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/35/C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 6496 pixels width: 4872 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/35/preview_C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/48/269/large_C_89_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/1/48/269/mid_C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.89-1927_200908_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/48/269/preview_C_89_1927_200908_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels