IDENTIFIERS
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id:	47779
accession number:	C.77-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware. The interior and upper part of the exterior are covered with thin white tin-glaze; the lower part and base unglazed. Painted in black and pale green.
Elongated pear shape on low foot with turned edge; about a third of the way up from the base the body widens slightly above bands of turning; carinated rim and pinched spout.
The front is decorated with a scorpion surrounded by sprigs and squiggles.
object type: Late Medieval maiolica body of a jug, painted in black and green with a scorpian.
title:	jug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47779


SUBJECTS
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scorpion
scorpion



TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1300 - 1400
creation date earliest:	1300
creation date latest:	1400
culture:	14th Century
culture:	Medieval

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 10.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 23.0



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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