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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with lines, leaves, hatching and stripes.
Buff earthenware; the interior, lower part and base are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest tin-glazed pale grey. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 8. Globular body with disk base, short cylindrical neck, pelican beak spout and wide strap handle.
The spout and handle are flanked by three vertical lines forming side panels, each containing two diagonal lines with, above and below them, a leaf with a green outline and cross-hatched centre. On the spout and front there are horizontal lines of alternate colours. The lower part is encircled by two horizontal manganese bands, and the neck by two manganese, a green chain and another manganese. The handle has six horizontal stripes of alternate colours.
History note: Probably Signor Avvocato Marcioni or Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli; Sotheby's, 16-17 February 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, p. 5, part of lot 29. William Ridout; probably Christie's, 13 December 1938, 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: 14.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1300
CE
-
1400
CE
The '29' on the base is, probably, the jug's lot number in the Marcioni-Lucatelli sale catalogue (this lot was sold to Visconti), but the description is insufficiently detailed to identify it with certainty. If it was, this is probably indicates that it was made, and found in Orvieto or its vicinity.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Interior, Base
composed of
lead-glaze
Part Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 13.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8.9 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 17.3 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Accession number: C.36-1991
Primary reference Number: 47418
Packing number: EURCER 462
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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