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Workshop: Domenego da Venezia
Renaissance maiolica jar, painted in polychrome with a panel on each side enclosing the head of a man wearing a turban, and the head of a man wearing a hat.
Jar. Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on both sides; the rim and base unglazed. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Globular with short narrow neck and flat rim which has warped; the base is slightly convex and unstable.
On each side there is a circular panel with a scrolled frame: one enclosing the head of a man three-quarter face, wearing a turban; the other, the head of a man wearing a hat. The sides are decorated with stylised flowers and foliage, reserved in a blue ground incised with squiggles and curved strokes. A narrow blue horizontal band and a wider yellow band encircle the base and the neck.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Diameter: 29.4 cm
Height: 25.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1560
-
1570
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white)
rim and base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on both sides; the rim and base unglazed. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.245-1991
Primary reference Number: 73536
Packing number: EURCER 345
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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