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Workshop:
Maso and Miniato di Domenico
(Perhaps)
Workshop:
Giunta di Tugio
(Perhaps)
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) painted in dark relief-blue and manganese, with the bust of a man surrounded by 'oak leaves' on each side.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in dark relief-blue with manganese outlines.
Bulbous ovoid body with flat base, short cylindrical neck and two broad strap handles composed of two adjacent strips and a central rib.
Both sides are decorated with a bust of a man in profile to left, wearing a high-necked doublet and a cap, flanked by wings, and surrounded by sprays of oak leaves with short dashes in the background. On each side of the handles there are three vertical manganese lines. Round the lower part of the body there are two horizontal manganese bands; on the neck, between pairs of horizontal manganese bands, alternating blue circles and pairs of manganese arrow heads placed tip to tip. On the handles there are horizontal manganese lines and blue splodges, and, below each handle, a stylised plant. At the base of each handle are three manganese asterisks.
History note: S.R. Christie-Miller; Sotheby's, 28 July 1919, Catalogue of a small but choice collection of Italian majolica, the property of S.R. Christie-Miller, Esq., Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks., lot A & pl. IA; F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 32.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa
1420
CE
-
1450
CE
Doubts have been expressed about the authenticity of this jar
Decoration
composed of
manganese
( oxide)
cobalt-blue
( oxide)
tin-glaze
Mouth
Diameter 15.2 cm
Base
Diameter 17.5 cm
Across Handles
Width 30.8 cm
Body
Inscription present: torn rectangular label from a sale catalogue
Inscription present: three manganese asterisks
Accession number: C.101-1927
Primary reference Number: 48154
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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