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Jug: C.90-1927

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Current Location: In storage

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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery

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Description

Late Medieval jug, painted in manganese and green, with pine-cones on stems, applied in relief, surrounded by contour lines and cross-hatching.

Jug. Cream earthenware, the interior, exterior of the foot, and most of the underside are lead-glazed dark yellow; the rest is tin-glazed greyish-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 17. Elongated ovoid body with short cylindrical neck expanding towards the rim which is pinched at the front to form a lip; solid pedestal foot; loop handle of D section.
On the front, five pine-cones on stems, applied in relief, branch upwards from a low central point. The stems are surrounded by contour lines and the background is cross-hatched in manganese. On each side of the handle, there are S hooks between two groups of three vertical lines. Below are two manganese bands; on the neck, a green chain between pairs of horizontal manganese bands; and on the handle, oblique stripes of alternate colours.

Notes

History note: Presumed excavated in Orvieto; Elia Volpi, Florence; Durlacher Brothers, London, from whom purchased in November 1920 by F. Leverton Harris.

Legal notes

F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926.

Measurements and weight

Height: 29.1 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Orvieto ⪼ Umbria ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.

Dating

13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa 1275 CE - 1375 CE

Note

This jug is shown numbered 1 on the tenth photograph in a group believed to have been taken in Orvieto c. 1909-10, given by David Whitehouse in 1986 to the BM's Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities.

School or Style

maiolica arcaica

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Components of the work

Interior, Foot composed of lead-glaze ( and underside)
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior composed of tin-glaze
Body Diameter 15.7 cm
Foot Diameter 9.8 cm

Materials used in production

Earthenware

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.90-1927
Primary reference Number: 47321
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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