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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in black and green, decorated with leaves, hatching, oblique strokes and lines.
Pale buff earthenware, the interior, lower part and most of the base lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest tin-glazed greyish-white. Painted in black and a little copper-green. Shape 11. Bulbous body with disk base, tall cylindrical neck, carinated rim, pinched at the front to form a spout, and loop handle of D section.
The front is decorated with two partly hatched and partly green leaves on a scrolling stem with above, a green horizontal line between two manganese, and another green. On each side of the handle, in manganese, there are oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. Below and round the neck, there are three horizontal manganese bands; on the handle, five horizontal stripes of alternate colours.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Federnando Lucatelli, Orvieto by 1909. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, 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: 17.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1375
CE
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and most of base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 10.7 cm
Base
Diameter 8.5 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 13.4 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: brown tie-on
Accession number: C.41-1991
Primary reference Number: 47437
Packing number: EURCER 899
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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