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Potter: Unidentified Deruta pottery
Fragment of a maiolica dish, painted in dark blue, yellow and brownish-orange with a geometrical pattern.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides and painted in dark blue, yellow and brownish-orange. Approximately triangular section from the rim of a dish. Painted on the front with scale or peacock feather eye pattern, enclosed by (a) 4 concentric blue circles, 2 having strokes between them; (b) a zig-zag border composed of triple lines with dot-filled triangles in the spaces; (c) repeat of (a); and round the rim (d) reserved white petals in a blue ground. On the back, blue petal outlines filled by orange horizontal striations.
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
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964-03-12) by Rackham, Bernard
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Production date:
circa
AD 1500
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in dark blue, yellow and brownish-orange)
Side
Length 10.2 cm
Length 10.4 cm
Length 8.4 cm
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides and painted in dark blue, yellow and brownish-orange.
Accession number: C.4.9-1964
Primary reference Number: 74917
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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