IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47586 accession number: C.63-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware. The interior and foot are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed pale greyish-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green. Shape 17. Elongated piriform body with pedestal foot, short neck, trilobate mouth and loop handle. The front is decorated with a long-legged bird with a pointed beak, with leaves above to right and left, and below to right. The handle is flanked by inverted Vs between two sets of three vertical lines. Below are two manganese bands; on the neck, two manganese bands, a green chain and another manganese band; and on the handle, eleven horizontal stripes of alternate colours. object type: Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with a bird on the front. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 53 & pl. II. Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47586 PEOPLE ------------------- Reitlinger, Henry Scipio SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1300 - 1400 creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1400 culture: 14th Century culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 CITATIONS -------- Le vecchie collezioni di ceramica orvietana medievale Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_63_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_63_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_63_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_63_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_63_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_63_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_63_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_63_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels