Jug: C.192-1991

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown (Possibly)

Entities

• Jug

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Maiolica

Description

Renaissance maiolica jug, painted in polychrome with, on the front, a stag, and scrolls on the sides.

Reddish buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in pale blue, green, yellow, and dark yellow, outlined in manganese-brown.
Globular body with disk base, short neck pinched at the front to form a lip, and handle composed of three rolls of clay, curling at the lower ends.
On the front is a stag lodged regardant on a green ground with stylised brown grass, enclosed by concentric blue, dark yellow and blue circles. Above and on either side are vertical dark yellow foliated scrolls reserved in a green dotted ground, delimited by vertical blue, yellow, and blue lines. Below there are horizontal blue and yellow bands; round the neck, a blue, two narrow dark yellow and a broad yellow. Across the back of the jug below the handle there are vertical blue strokes. The back of the handle is yellow with green edges.

Notes

History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

Legal notes

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

17th Century
Circa 1600 CE - 1650 CE