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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with leaves on the front, olblique strokes and lines.
Buff earthenware; the interior, lower part of the body and base lead-glazed pale brownish-yellow; the rest tin-glazed pinkish-grey. Painted in manganese and a little copper-green.
Shape 11. Globular body with slightly accentuated base, cylindrical base, carinated rim, pinched spout, and loop handle of oval section.
The front is decorated with two partly green and partly hatched heart-shaped leaves on stems coiling to the left and right, with three crosses above and three below. On each side of the handle, in manganese, there are oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. Below are two horizontal manganese bands; on the neck, three; and on the handle, four oblique stripes of alternate colours.
History note: 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, perhaps part of lot 71. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, part of lot 104; 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: 18.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1350
CE
Comparable heart-shaped leaves or fruits occur on a jug in the Museo Internazione delle Ceramiche, Faenza. Also on a fragmentary jug recovered from butto C (rubbish pit) of the Palazzetto Faina, Orvieto.
Interior, Base
composed of
lead-glaze
( and lower part)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 10.4 cm
Base
Diameter 7.7 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 14.6 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: brown tie-on
Inscription present: an illegible lot number
Accession number: C.38-1991
Primary reference Number: 47426
Packing number: EURCER 954
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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