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Potter: Unknown (Probably)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; traces of lead glaze on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and a little manganese-purple.
Albarello with sloping shoulders, cylindrical neck, and two handles each formed of two rolls of clay pushed together and flattened.
On each side is a rectangular panel bordered by criss-crosses between pairs of vertical lines. One contains a label inscribed `DEO GRAcIAS' (Thanks to God), with, above and below, blue and yellow lines and two parti-coloured leaves on a stalk with dots in the background, The other has four stylised flowers on stems meeting in the centre, with diagonal tendrils between them, and a dotted background. Above and below are horizontal blue bands. Round the lower part there are criss-crosses; on the shoulder, parti-coloured leaves and buds on stalks; on the neck, smaller criss-crosses between two narrow and two wide horizontal blue bands. The handles are decorated with alternating pairs of blue and yellow horizontal stripes.
History note: Adolf von Beckerath; Berlin, Lepke, 4 November 1913, Die Majolika-Sammlung Adolf von Beckerath, lot 63, pl. 20. F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 48.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
15th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1470
CE
-
1500
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, green, yellow, and a little manganese-purple)
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 10.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 10.6 cm
Accession number: C.91-1927
Primary reference Number: 48755
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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