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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in black and green with leaves, berries, oblique strokes and lines.
Earthenware. The interior, lower part, and some of the base are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed pale beige. Painted in black and copper-green.
Barrel shaped body with disk base, short neck, flaring to incorrectly restored rim and spout, strap handle of D section.
The front is decorated with three five-lobed leaves and eight berries on coiling stems, with two horizontal black bands below and one above. On each side of the handle, there are black oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. On the neck, there is a horizontal black band; on the handle, six horizontal stripes of 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 79B (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: 17.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1300
CE
-
1400
CE
Similar five-lobed leaves and berries occur on a differently shaped jug in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and some of base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 12.1 cm
Base
Diameter 8.8 cm
Over Handle
Height 16.1 cm
Accession number: C.58-1991
Primary reference Number: 47529
Packing number: EURCER 887
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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