IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 78769 accession number: C.108-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; the interior lead-glazed yellowish-brown; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, and manganese. Albarello with sloping shoulders, cylindrical neck, and two wide strap handles, each with a thumb print at its base. The back and front are decorated with rectangular panels bordered by interlaced reversed Ss between sets of three vertical lines. Both panels contain a Gothic 'a' with incised decoration on the upright strokes, enclosed by a contour line and flanked by pairs of serrated leaves surrounded by dots. Above and below there are two horizontal blue bands. Round the lower part and neck are slanting blue lines; on the shoulder, San Bernardino rays; and on the handles, alternating pairs of blue and green horizontal lines. title: two-handled jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: C. & E. Canessa, Paris, from whom purchased in 1920 by F. Leverton Harris (1864-1926), by whom bequeathed LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/78769 CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1460 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century# culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris, II The Leverton Harris Collection Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Maiolica before Raphael. Italian ceramics before 1500 ---