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Maiolica fragment of the rim of a dish, painted in polychrome with stylised buds, leaves and stems.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides and painted in blue, copper-green, yellow and orange.
Of irregular shape with the curved edge of the rim on one side. Part of a border design of interlacing yellow lines containing stylised leaves, with stylised buds on stems projecting from the intersection of the lines. On the reverse, a rough cross in blue and part of another.
History note: From a pozzo in Orvieto. Collection of Signor Avvocato Marcioni & Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli; purchased from Fenton, Cranbourne St., shortly after the sale at Sotheby's on 16-17 February, 1914, but not included in it.
Bequeathed by Bernard Rackham
Depth: 1.4 cm
Length: 6.2 cm
Width: 6.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964-03-12) by Rackham, Bernard
16th Century, Mid#
Renaissance
Circa
1540
CE
-
1560
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, copper-green, yellow and orange)
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides and painted in blue, copper-green, yellow and orange.
Accession number: C.4.8-1964
Primary reference Number: 74915
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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