IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72041
accession number:	C.146-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, thrown. The interior is tin-glazed greyish-cream; the exterior lead-glazed pale yellowish-brown. Painted in dark blue, a little pale green, and yellow.
Shape 46. Circular with sloping sides, curving inwards at the top, standing on a solid base.
In the middle, within six narrow concentric blue circles, are eight yellow squares filled alternately with blue dots and small blue circles; above and below are a green and a yellow stripe with blue strokes over them. On the sides, three groups of short vertical blue strokes alternate with three groups of yellow, and below the rim is a wide yellow band between two sets of three narrow blue bands.
object type: Renaissance maiolica bowl, painted in blue, green and yellow with circles, squares, dots, strokes and stripes.
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purportedly excavated in Orvieto. Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72041





TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, thrown, and tin-glazed greyish-cream on the interior; the exterior lead-glazed pale yellowish-brown. Painted in dark blue, a little pale green, and yellow.
throwing (pottery technique)

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1450 - 1500
creation date earliest:	1450
creation date latest:	1500
culture:	15th Century#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 15

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 5.6



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
La ceramica orvietana nel Quattrocento & nel Cinquecento
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