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Maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Renaissance maiolica bowl, painted in blue and green with, in the middle, a rosette, surrounded by concentric circles on the sides.
Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides; base partly glazed. Painted in dark blue and green.
Shape 29. Hemisperical bowl, standing on a splayed foot.
In the middle is a multi-petalled blue rosette. The sides are decorated with a row of blue spots and concentric circles: narrow blue, wide blue, wide green between pairs of narrow blue, and wide blue. Outside there is a wide blue band between two narrow.
History note: Signor Avvocato Arcangelo Marcioni (1859-1928) or Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli (1862-19 ); Sotheby's, 16-17 [17] February 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, part of lot 185 (unsold). Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 12 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century#
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1450
CE
-
1510
CE
The previous ownership of this bowl indicates that it was probably made in Orvieto or elsewhere in Umbria, or northern Lazio
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( dark blue and green)
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides; base partly glazed. Painted in dark blue and green.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.147-1991
Primary reference Number: 72056
Packing number: EURCER 920
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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