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Maker: Unknown (Uncertain)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue, yellow and orange with slanting leaves, bands and strokes.
Pale red earthenware, the interior lead-glazed brown, the exterior tin-glazed off-white. Painted in blue, yellow, and orange.
Waisted albarello with sloping shoulders and everted rim.
Round the middle are slanting blue leaves with yellow and orange tips, with a narrow and two wider blue horizontal bands above, and two wide bands between two narrow below. On the shoulder there are oblique strokes between horizontal blue bands, and round the neck is a wider band.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 20.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century, Late
16th Century
Circa
1480
CE
-
1600
CE
Perhaps Sicily or Naples
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, yellow, and orange)
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 10.0 cm
Widest Part
Diameter 11.9 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.4 cm
Throwing : Pale red earthenware, thrown, the interior lead-glazed brown, the exterior tin-glazed off-white. Painted in blue, yellow, and orange.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.264-1991
Primary reference Number: 73842
Packing number: EURCER 362
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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