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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Late Medieval maiolica ewer, painted in manganese and green with chevrons, S hooks, and lines in horizontal bands.
Pale buff earthenware, the interior and foot is lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed greyish-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green. Shape 13. Globular body with concave restriction, high pedestal foot, cylindrical neck flaring to the carinated rim, pinched spout and loop handle of oval section.
On the front of the body, the restriction is decorated with manganese chevrons with two wide green bands and two narrow manganese below, and a wide green, narrow manganese and wide green above. On each side of the handle there are S hooks between two sets of three vertical lines. The neck is encircled by a wavy line reserved in manganese with a green line and two manganese lines above and below. The handle is horizontally striped in alternate colours.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli. before 1914. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 104; 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: 22.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
This form seems to be a development of Shape 12 (Documentation, Poole, 1995) and occurs with a wide, low foot or a pedestal foot as here. A comparable example was formerly in a private collection at Orvieto.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Interior, Foot
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 10.1 cm
Handle To Front
Diameter 13.3 cm
Body
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: brown tie-on
Accession number: C.61-1991
Primary reference Number: 47576
Packing number: EURCER 465
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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