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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with fleur-de-lis, hatching, S hooks and lines.
Yellowish-buff earthenware, the interior, lower part of the body and base lead-glazed dark-yellow; the rest tin-glazed pale grey. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 11. Bulbous body with disk base, cylindrical neck, carinated rim, pinched spout and loop handle with a longtitudinal ridge.
The front is decorated with a panel containing a fleur-de-lis enclosed by curved stems shaded in green, with cross-hatching in the spaces. On each side of the handle, in manganese, there are S hooks between two sets of three vertical lines. Below are two manganese horizontal bands; round the neck, three, and a green band; on the handle, horizontal strokes of alternate colours.
History note: Signor Avvocato Arcangelo Marcioni (1859-1928) or Cavaliere CapitanoFerdinando Lucatelli, Orvieto ; 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, lot 79A (2). Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by 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: 18.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1350
CE
Interior, Base
composed of
lead-glaze
( and lower part of body)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 10.5 cm
Base
Diameter 7.8 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 14.3 cm
Accession number: C.43-1991
Primary reference Number: 47444
Packing number: EURCER 440
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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