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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with a fish and a man's head on the front.
Pale buff earthenware. The interior and exterior of the foot are lead-glazed brown, the base is unglazed, and the rest is tin-glazed pale greyish-beige. Painted in dark manganese and copper-green.
Shape 17. Elongated piriform body with pedestal foot, short neck, trilobate mouth, and loop handle of oval section.
The front is decorated with a flat fish with a man's head flanked by green curved and pointed strokes. On each side of the handle, there is a vertical wavy line flanked by Ss between two sets of three vertical manganese lines. Below are two horizontal manganese bands; on the neck, two and a green chain; and on the handle, ten oblique 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 30 (1) & pl. I. 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: 27.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark manganese and copper-green)
Interior, Foot
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 13.2 cm
Foot
Diameter 9.8 cm
Handle To Front
Width 14.5 cm
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.64-1991
Primary reference Number: 47589
Packing number: EURCER 448
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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