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Maker:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Possibly)
Maker:
Unidentified Lazio pottery
(Possibly)
Renaissance maiolica jug, painted in blue, green and yellow with, on the front a 'ladder' frame enclosing a cock.
Cream earthenware. The interior is lead-glazed brownish-yellow. The exterior is slip-coated overall, and the sides and handle are thinly tin-glazed greyish-white. Painted in blue, green, and greyish-yellow. Shape 43. Ovoid with projecting base, short neck expanding towards the rim which is pinched at the front to form a lip; small strap handle.
On the front, an ovoid blue `ladder' frame encloses a cock surrounded by greyish-yellow strokes representing grass. Down each side is a vertical green squiggle.
History note: Probably William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, probably lot 35; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 18.9 cm
Width: 11.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1550
CE
Jugs decorated with frontal medallions enclosed by 'ladder' frames were common throughout central Italy during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, but the form of this on suggess that it probably came from Orvieto or a town in northern Lazio. Several jugs of similar type are in the Museo del Vino at Torgiano, and one decorated with a cock is in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green and yellow)
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 9.2 cm
Sides, Handle
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.169-1991
Primary reference Number: 72463
Packing number: EURCER 348
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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