IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72175
accession number:	C.153-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, thrown with applied handles, tin-glazed creamy-white inside and outside; base partly glazed. Painted in blue and yellow.
Shape 45. Circular with curved sides and two loop handles, standing on a narrow foot.
In the middle is a chequered medallion surrounded by concentric circles: three blue, one orange, four blue, one orange and one blue. The outside of the rim is decorated with six blue inverted half-palmettes.
object type: Renaissance maiolica two-handled bowl, painted in blue and yellow with a chequered medallion surrounded by concentric circles.
title:	two-handled 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/72175





TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white inside and outside; base partly glazed. Painted in blue and yellow.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1450 - 1510
creation date earliest:	1450
creation date latest:	1510
culture:	15th Century#
culture:	16th Century, Early#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.9



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Fine Art and Antiques Fair
title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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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