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Pottery: Unknown (Probably)
Late Medieval maiolica handle from a jug, painted in manganese and green with horizontal stripes.
Yellowish-cream earthenware. Of loop form with a longtitudinal section of neck. The interior of the neck is lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the handle tin-glazed off-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
The outside is striped horizontally 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 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
Height: 8.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1350
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Interior Of Neck
composed of
lead-glaze
Handle
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Accession number: C.60B-1991
Primary reference Number: 47571
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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