IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47838 accession number: C.113-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, tin-glazed pale pinkish-grey on both sides; the unglazed base has a little glaze on one side. Painted in dark manganese and copper-green. Shape 32. Circular with narrow flat rim, curved sides and narrow base. Inside, within two concentric manganese circles, there is an eight-pointed star surrounded by cross-hatching; on the rim, a repeating border comprising three radiating strokes, a circle, three strokes, and a triangle. object type: Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in manganese and green with, on the inside, an eight-pointed star. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purportedly excavated in Orvieto. Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47838 PEOPLE ------------------- Reitlinger, Henry Scipio TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1300 - 1400 creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1400 culture: 14th Century culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.4 CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge La ceramica orvietana del medioevo I --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_113_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_113_1991.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_113_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_113_1991.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels