Bowl: C.149-1991

Maker(s)

Maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Maker: Unknown

Entities

• Bowl

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Maiolica

Description

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.

Notes

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.

Legal notes

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

15th Century
16th Century, Early
Renaissance
Circa 1450 CE - 1510 CE

Note

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.

School or Style

Renaissance