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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in manganese and green with, on the inside, a trilobate leaf reserved in cross-hatching.
Earthenware, thickly potted, with shiny, pale grey tin-glaze on both sides; base partly unglazed. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 24. Circular with narrow rim, carinated sides and narrow foot.
Inside, within two concentric manganese circles, there is a trilobate leaf reserved in cross-hatching; on the rim, alternating groups of green and manganese radiating strokes; and on the outside, two green horizontal bands.
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
Diameter: 13.1 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
14th Century
Late Medieval
Circa
1300
CE
-
Circa
1400
CE
This bowl is extremely heavy in comparison with the others of this form, which, with its comparatively unscathed greyish-white glaze, suggested that it might be an early twentieth-century reproduction. However, the satisfactory result of thermoluminescence analysis of a sample from Cat. no. 127 (C.133-1991), which is also heavy and new looking, suggests that this may not indicate later manufacture
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Foot
Diameter 4.7 cm
Body
base partly unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Inscription present: circular with blue edge
Accession number: C.127-1991
Primary reference Number: 47972
Packing number: EURCER 948
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.31-2013
Accession Number: E.277.1932
Accession Number: O.5-2017
Accession Number: E.132.1903
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