Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with an applied relief face and pines-cones.
Earthenware. The interior, lower part, and base are lead-glazed brownish-yellow; the rest is tin-glazed pale greenish-grey. Painted in dark manganese and copper-green.
Shape 19 with strap handle. Squat piriform body with disk base, short neck, trilobate mouth and strap handle.
The front is decorated with an applied relief face in a green oval frame, flanked by areas of cross-hatching and two relief pine-cones. On each side of the handle there are oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. Below are two horizontal bands; on the neck, a green chain between pairs of manganese horizontal bands; and on the handle, horizontal stripes of alternate colours.
Notes
History note: Signor Avvocato Arcangelo Marcioni (1859-1928) or Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli, Orvieto; 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 79C (1). Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Legal notes
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
Height: 16.9 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1991-04-29)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
School or Style
maiolica arcaica
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Handle To Relief
Diameter 11.9 cm
Base
Diameter 9.1 cm
Original Rim
Height 16.2 cm
Body
Materials used in production
Earthenware
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.68-1991
Primary reference Number: 47607
Packing number: EURCER 467
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
