These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with S hooks, chevrons, lines, oblique strokes in horizontal bands.
Pale buff earthenware. The interior and lower part are lead-glazed pale brown; the rest is tin-glazed pale beige. Painted in dark manganese and green.
Shape 12. Globular body with disk base and restriction, tall cylindrical neck, carinated rim, pinched spout and handle with longtitudinal ridge of which only the upper part is present.
On the restriction there is a row of black S hooks with two horizontal bands below and a manganese-edged green line above; on the shoulder, a zig-zag with green strokes across the lines, and fan-shaped leaves in the spaces above and below. The neck is decorated with two rows of chevrons between manganese lines, alternating with two green wavy lines. On each side of the handle, in manganese, there are oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines; round the rim, three manganese horizontal bands and one green; and on the handle, horizontal stripes in 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, lot 79E (1). William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, part of lot 104 or 105; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 23.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark manganese and copper-green)
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 13.3 cm
Base
Diameter 9.3 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 15.9 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Accession number: C.52-1991
Primary reference Number: 47487
Packing number: EURCER 897
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/47487 Accessed: 2024-11-08 18:14:38
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/47487
|title=Jug
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-08 18:14:38|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-47487
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_52_1991_281_29.jpg"
alt="Jug"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Jug</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
