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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with cross-hatching, leaves, lines, S hooks and chevrons.
Pale buff earthenware. The interior, lower part and base are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed pale beige. Painted in manganese and green. Shape 12. S mall globular body with disk base and restriction round the middle, tall cylindrical neck with carinated rim, pinched lip and loop handle with a longtitudinal ridge.
On the restriction there is a row of manganese S hooks with two horizontal bands below; on the shoulder, four panels separated by vertical lines, each containing a manganese and green chevron with a cross-hatched ground. The neck is decorated with a row of cross-hatched lozenges with a green stroke between each, with two manganese bands above and below. Higher up is a stem of paired leaves with three horizontal manganese bands above, and a green band on the rim. On each side of the handle, in manganese, there are wavy lines and spirals between two sets of three vertical lines. The handle has four green horizontal stripes alternating with three groups of three manganese.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando 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, lot 79A (1). 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: 23.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
It seems very likely that this jug was excavated in Orvieto because it can be seen in a photograph of 1909 showing medieval maiolica in the possession of Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli in Orvieto.
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Foot
Diameter 9.3 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 15.3 cm
Body
Accession number: C.51-1991
Primary reference Number: 47486
Packing number: EURCER 896
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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