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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica dish, painted in manganese and green with a rhomboid containing a plant and flower in the well.
Pale buff earthenware. Tin-glazed greyish-white on both sides, but very unevenly on the back; base unglazed. Painted in pale and dark manganese, and copper-green.
Shape 36. Thickly potted and heavy for its size. Circular with narrow rim and curved well, standing on a narrow foot.
In the well, there is a rhomboid containing a plant with a three-petalled flower with a cross-hatched background; on the rim, criss-crosses between manganese lines and a wide green band round the edge. On the reverse, a green band encircles the inner edge of the rim.
History note: Purportedly excavated at Orvieto. 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
Diameter: 22.0 cm
Height: 5.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1300
CE
-
1400
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( pale and dark manganese and copper-green)
Body
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.81-1991
Primary reference Number: 47789
Packing number: EURCER 463
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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