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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in black and green with, on the inside, a star or flower surrounded by cross-hatching.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in black and a little copper-green.
Shape 24. Circular with narrow rim, carinated sides and narrow foot.
Inside, within two concentric circles there is a star or flower surrounded by cross-hatching. The rim is cross-hatched. Outside, there are groups of three short oblique lines alternating with green squiggles between narrow black horizontal lines, and a green line below.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, probably part of lot 108; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust
Diameter: 12.4 cm
Height: 6.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
Circa
1375
CE
This bowl form occurs with the flat rim decorated with cross-hatching, radiating strokes, or, if the rim is narrow, a green band. Examples found in cistern C and butto F (rubbish pit) of the Palazzetto Faina in Orvieto have been dated to the fourteenth centuryu. Bowls with cross-hatched rims are in the Bargello, florence and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and a little copper-green)
Foot
Diameter 5.6 cm
Body
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Accession number: C.124-1991
Primary reference Number: 47968
Packing number: EURCER 454
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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