Pottery: Unidentified Faenza pottery
Maiolica pharmacy jar or vase, painted in blue, green and orange with gothic foliage and fruit.
Pale yellowish-buff earthenware. Tin-glazed on the exterior and very thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale bluish-green, and orange. The jar has a baluster body with cylindrical neck.
Round the widest part is a broad zone of gothic foliage and fruit interrupted at two points by a crown. Below are blue, green, and orange horizontal bands, and above, blue and orange bands. Round the neck and above the base are San Bernardino rays with groups of vertical strokes in the spaces.
History note: Biasioli collection, Faenza. C. & E. Canessa, Paris; F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 31.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
15th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1470
CE
-
1490
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, pale blue, pale bluish-green, and orange)
Base
Diameter 13.0 cm
Widest Part
Diameter 20.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.8 cm
Throwing
: Pale yellowish-buff earthenware. Tin-glazed on the exterior and very thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale bluish-green, and orange.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.68-1927
Primary reference Number: 80692
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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