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Cup: C.104-1991

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery

Entities

  • Cup
  • cup with one handle

Categories

Description

Late Medieval maiolica cup with one handle, painted in black and green with, on the inside, a shield.

Pale reddish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed beige on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in black and copper-green.
Approximately Shape 21. Circular with carinated sides, narrow foot and one loop handle; the other has been broken off.
Inside, within two black concentric circles, there is a shield with a green border, charged with a green fleur-de-lis, surrounded by cross-hatching. On the outside there are two panels of cross-hatching each flanked by panels of vertical lines, over a green band; on the rim, a green band, and, on the handle, a green horizontal stroke with three black strokes above and below.

Notes

History note: Probably William Ridout; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991

Legal notes

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950

Measurements and weight

Height: 5.2 cm
Width: 13.1 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Orvieto ⪼ Umbria ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa 1250 CE - Circa 1350 CE

Note

Fleur-de-lis occur frequently on late medieval maiolica, either as independent motifs (see jug C.50-1991), sometimes surrounded by a contour panel, as on a two-handled cup in the Detroit Institute of Arts, or as charges on shields, as on a cup of this type formerly in the Imbert collection, a two-handled bowl in the Casina del Bessarione, Rome, and a lobed bowl in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto. The motif also occurs on maiolica from Lazio.

School or Style

maiolica arcaica

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( black and copper-green)
Foot Diameter 3.4 cm
Body

Materials used in production

except base Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.104-1991
Primary reference Number: 47829
Packing number: EURCER 941
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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