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Maker:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Probably)
Maker:
Unknown
(Possibly)
Renaissance maiolica bowl, painted in blue and yellow with a yellow disk surrounded by concentric circles and rows of trefoils.
Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed creamy-white overall, perhaps over slip. Painted in blue and yellow.
Shape 47. Circular with narrow curved rim and deep well.
In the middle is a yellow disk surrounded by three blue concentric circles; on the rim, two staggered rows of blue trefoils between wide blue bands.
History note: 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.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 11 cm
Height: 3.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century, Late
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1480
CE
-
1520
CE
The purported provenance of this bowl suggests that it is likely to have come from Orvieto, but analogous bowls were also made further south in Lazio. For examples found in Orvieto, see the bibliography provided for C.155-1991 and C.157-1991.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and yellow)
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed creamy-white overall, perhaps over slip. Painted in blue and yellow.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.156-1991
Primary reference Number: 72228
Packing number: EURCER 966
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72228 Accessed: 2024-11-22 00:29:59
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