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Maker:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Probably)
Maker:
Unknown
Renaissance maiolica bowl, painted in blue and orange with a multi-petalled flower surrounded by concentric circles.
Cream earthenware, thrown, and tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides; base unglazed. The glaze inside has numerous pinholes. Painted in dark blue and orange.
Shape 29 with narrower foot. Circular with curved sides standing on a narrow solid foot.
In the middle is a multi-petalled flower surrounded by concentric circles: narrow blue, wide orange and wide blue. On the sides, blue half-palmettes alternate with short orange squiggles, and above there are concentric bands: narrow blue, wide orange and wide blue.
History note: Signor Avvocato Arcangelo Marcioni (1859-1928) or Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli (1862-19 ); Sotheby's, 16-17 February 1914 [17], 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: 13.5 cm
Height: 5.8 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 suggests that it is likely to have been made in Orvieto or its vicinity, and this attribution is supported by the excavation of a great many hemispherical bowls from butti and kiln sites there. However, bowls with analogous decoration were also made in towns in the Romagna, such as Faenza.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue and orange)
Visible Surfaces
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Throwing (pottery technique) : Cream earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides; base unglazed. The glaze inside has numerous pinholes. Painted in dark blue and orange.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.149-1991
Primary reference Number: 72085
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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