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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in black and green with, in the middle, a stylised flower on a stalk, and on the sides bands and dots.
Earthenware., thrown, tin-glazed greyish-cream on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in black and copper-green.
Shape 29. Circular with deep sides curving inwards slightly at the top and disk base.
In the middle, within a black circle, there is a stylised flower on a stalk; on the sides, a double row of black dots between wide horizontal green bands, and narrow black bands above and below.
History note: 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; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 13.2 cm
Height: 5.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century
15th Century, Early#
Medieval
Circa
1300
CE
-
1425
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Base
Diameter 6.6 cm
Body
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.120-1991
Primary reference Number: 47930
Packing number: EURCER 921
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/47930 Accessed: 2024-11-04 17:58:15
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/47930
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-04 17:58:15|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-47930
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_120_1991.jpg"
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class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bowl</figcaption>
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