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Maker: Unknown (Perhaps district of)
Renaissance, maiolica jug, painted in relief-blue, relief-green, yellow and manganese with a Lombardic 'N' terminating in foliage on each side.
Red earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white on the exterior. Painted in dark relief-blue, relief-green, yellow, and manganese.
Globular body with short flaring neck, pinched at the front to form a lip, and loop handle with an applied longitudinal strip down the centre.
On the front is a shield charged with the arms or, three bars azure, below which is an outlined, uncoloured area, perhaps a badge. On each side is a Lombardic `N' terminating in foliage. The spaces are filled by small cross-hatched compartments and wavy-edged leaves. The handles are flanked by leaves and blue spots on a wavy stem between two sets of three vertical manganese lines. A similar stem encircles the neck between pairs of horizontal manganese bands. Down the back of the handle and extending below it there are leaves on a wavy stem.
History note: William Morris (d. 1896); Mrs William Morris; Miss May Morris, from whom purchased on 30 January 1921 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher for £150 (MS Cat. 3702 and a letter from Sydney Cockerell to Glaisher stuck into the book next to the entry).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 40.0 cm
Width: 35.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa
1440
CE
-
1460
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark relief-blue, relief-green, yellow, and manganese)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2165-1928
Primary reference Number: 48196
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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