Production: Unidentified Deruta pottery (Probably)
Fragment of a bowl with deep sides. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in dark blue, orange and a little yellow. Five-sided with part of the side and narrow, sloping rim which is slightly upturned at the edge.
Inside is a geometrical design comprising horizontal bands of decoration: a blue 'ladder', a blue 'rope', a broad zone of scale pattern, a blue 'ladder', a row of alternately orange and white squares, a blue 'rope', and a yellow line on the extreme edge. On the back are narrow vertical blue stripes with vertical rows of small orange strokes or dots between them.
History note: One of a group of sherds accompanied by a label 'Mostly bought at Orvieto; some pieces, marked P on the back, from Perugia. The Orvieto pieces, with a few exceptions, were found in excavating foundations for houses near Cathedral.'
Given by R.C. Bosanquet
Length: 7.9 cm
Width: 6.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1520
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in dark blue, orange and a little yellow)
pale buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted in dark blue, orange and a little yellow.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with blue printed border
Accession number: C.84-1904
Primary reference Number: 81108
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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