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Maker: Unknown
Earthenware, tin-glazed. Painted in blue, green, orange, and manganese.
Bulbous body with a short narrow neck which expands slightly towards the rim, and is pinched at the front to form a lip; the handle is missing.
On the front, there is a castle on a hill painted in blue and manganese with groups of three blue dots in the background, surrounded by an oval line and a green and yellow bound laurel wreath with blue and yellow `bull's eye' motifs at the top and bottom. On either side, wavy manganese ribbons extend towards the back of the jug.
History note: Purportedly excavated at the Palazzo Piccolomini, Siena; F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 34.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
15th Century#
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1490
CE
-
1520
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, orange, and manganese)
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 14.5 cm
At Widest
Width 25.4 cm
Accession number: C.52-1927
Primary reference Number: 48199
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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