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Fragment: C.95-1904

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Production: Unidentified Lazio pottery (Perhaps)

Entities

Categories

Description

Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed on the inside, and probably slip-coated and lead-glazed brownish-yellow on the outside. Painted in blue and green. Part of the disk base and side which slopes outwards and then inwards towards the rim. In the centre is a many-petalled flower head surrounded by concentric circles: three blue, one green, one blue, a row of oblique blue strokes, one blue, one blue and one wider blue.

Notes

History note: The fragment was included in a group with 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.' Richard Carr Bosanquet, MA.

Legal notes

Given by R.C. Bosanquet

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 10.0 cm
Height: 6.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.

Dating

16th Century
Renaissance
Circa 1500 CE - 1550 CE

Note

Orvieto or Lazio

School or Style

Renaissance

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and green)
Outside composed of lead-glaze
Inside composed of tin-glaze

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: rectangular with blue border

  • Text: H 16
  • Location: On the exterior of the side
  • Method of creation: Inscribed in red ink
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.95-1904
Primary reference Number: 81119
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 21 March 2017 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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