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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with leaves, 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 manganese and copper-green. Shape 11. Bulbous, barrel-shaped body with disk base, cylindrical neck, carinated rim, pinched spout and strap handle with a longtitudinal ridge.
The front is decorated with two multipartite trilobate leaves on coiling stems with two horizontal manganese bands below and two above. On each side of the handle, in manganese, there are oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. On the neck is a green chain with two horizontal manganese bands above; on the handle, pairs of manganese horizontal stripes alternate with one green.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli, Orvieto, by 1909. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, probably 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: 22.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1425
CE
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and most of base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 10.6 cm
Body
Diameter 13.3 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 15.9 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Accession number: C.46-1991
Primary reference Number: 47454
Packing number: EURCER 429
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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