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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Late Medieval maiolica neck of a jug, painted in manganese and green with leaves, cross-hatching, lines and strokes.
Neck of a jug in thirteen fragments. Pale buff earthenware. Cylindrical neck of a jug with a carinated rim and pinched lip. The interior is lead-glazed brownish-yellow; the exterior is tin-glazed. Painted in dark manganese and a little green.
The design incorporates a scrolling leaf border at the bottom, cross-hatching and a circular green motif below the lip, and, at the sides, groups of three vertical lines flanking pairs of short strokes.
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 59 & pl. IV. 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
Height: 13.0 cm
Width: 7.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1350
CE
This neck was attached to C.60-1991, when it was illustrated in the catalogue of the Marcioni and Lucatelli sale held by Sotheby's on 16-17 February 1914.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark manganese and copper-green)
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Accession number: C.60A-1991
Primary reference Number: 47563
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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