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Maker:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Probably)
Maker:
Unidentified Lazio pottery
(Possibly)
Renaissance maiolica bowl, painted in blue and yellow with a flower, concentric circles and triangular motifs.
Earthenware, thrown and tin-glazed greyish-white overall. Painted in dark blue and yellow.
Shape 47. Circular with a narrow rim and deep well, slightly convex in the middle.
In the middle is a blue flower within two concentric circles; on the sides of the well, eight alternately blue and yellow irregular triangular motifs separated by blue Vs, and, above, three narrow blue bands. Similar motifs are on the rim.
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: 14.8 cm
Height: 3.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century, Late
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1480
CE
-
1520
CE
The provenance of this bowl indicates that it likely to have been made in Orvieto, but analogous bowls were made further south in Lazio.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( dark blue and yellow)
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Earthenware, thrown and tin-glazed greyish-white overall. Painted in dark blue and yellow.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.158-1991
Primary reference Number: 72260
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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