IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81122 accession number: C.98-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Two joined fragments of a bowl with a narrow rim. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed off-white, rather thinly and unevenly on both sides. Painted in dark blue and yellow. The fragments form about half of the well with part of the rim, attached to a length of rim. In the centre is a yellow disk surrounded by four concentric blue circles. On the rim there is a broad yellow band flanked by groups of three dark blue, narrow, concentric circles. title: fragments NOTES ----- type: history note value: According to a label accompanying a group of fragments, including this one, given by R.C. Bosanquet in 1904, they were 'Mostly bought in Orvieto; some pieces, (marked P at back) from Perugia. The Orvieto pieces, with a few exceptions were found in excavating foundations for houses near the Cathedral.' LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by R.C. Bosanquet STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81122 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed off-white, rather than thinly and unevenly on both sides. Painted in dark blue and yellow. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery maker: Unidentified Lazio pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 10.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.5 CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge ---