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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Late Medieval maiolica ewer, painted in black and green with three panels containing a knot flanked by half leaves and cross-hatching.
Earthenware, thrown. The interior, foot and base are lead-glazed brownish-yellow; the rest is tin-glazed pale beige. Painted in black and copper-green. Shape 16. Elongated piriform body with small pedestal foot, tubular spout and broad strap handle with a longtitudinal ridge.
On each side of the handle and spout, there are three black vertical lines forming three panels. In each side panel there is a knot flanked by half leaves reserved in cross-hatching, and in the panel under the spout, a leaf on a stalk reserved in cross-hatching. Below are two horizontal black bands; above, two green bands flanked by black, and, under the spout, four green horizontal lines. On the neck, there is a green chain; on the handle, pairs of green horizontal stripes alternate with one black.
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 56 & 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.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 30.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1350
CE
This ewer seems likely to have been made in Orvieto because it appears with a cover, in a photograph in the Biblioteca Comunale, Orvieto, showing maiolica in the possession of Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli collection c. 1909 (see Documentation, Satolli 2003). But vessels of this form has also been found in butti (rubbish pits) at Tuscania in Lazio, and have also been attributed to Viterbo.
Interior, Foot
composed of
lead-glaze
( and base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 9.8 cm
Over Spout
Height 30.2 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 17.4 cm
Body
Accession number: C.67-1991
Primary reference Number: 47606
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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