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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with a grid pattern on the sides and a leaf on the front.
Pale buff earthenware; the interior and lower part lead-glazed pale yellowish-brown; the rest tin-glazed greyish-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 7. Ovoid with flat base, cylindrical neck, applied folded spout and broad strap handle.
The spout and handle are flanked by three manganese lines forming side panels, each containing a grid of horizontal and vertical lines. There is a leaf on each side of the spout, and under it, a leaf on a coiling stem. The lower part is encircled by two manganese horizontal bands and the neck by three (mostly missing). The handle has five horizontal stripes in alternate colours.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware. part of lot 104 or 105; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 19.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1350
CE
Grid and check patterns, some more complex than here occur frequently on jugs made in Orvieto. The patterns are remi¬niscent of the bed covers shown in paintings of the first half of the fourteenth cen¬tury, such as Pietro Lorenzetti's predella of The Dream of Sobach from his altar¬piece of 1329 for the church of the Carmelites in Siena, now in the Pina¬coteca, Siena, or his Birth of the Virgin of 1342 in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena. A jug with a larger check pattern on the sides is in the Museo del Duomo, Orvieto (MIBAC 10/00153795)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Interior/lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 13.8 cm
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 17.3 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Accession number: C.28-1991
Primary reference Number: 47367
Packing number: EURCER 464
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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