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Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Unidentified Lazio pottery
(Possibly)
Late Medieval, lead-glazed earthenware jug, painted underglaze in black and green, decorated with palmettes and strokes.
Pale red earthenware, the interior and upper part lead-glaze yellowish-buff; base unglazed. Painted underglaze in black and copper-green. Approximately Shape 4. Biconical body with restriction at widest point, tall cylindrical neck pinched at the front to form a spout (restored), and wide strap handle.
The shoulder is decorated with two palmettes and the remains of a third, reserved in a green ground with two horizontal black bands above and below. On the neck is an interlace border reserved in a green ground between pairs of black bands; on the handle, four black-edged green horizontal strokes. Two dribbles of green have run down the lower part at the front.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli, Orvieto before 1914; probably sold Sotheby's, 16-17 February, 1914 but lot number not identified. Purchased as excavated at Orvieto, from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 27.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
Medieval
Circa
1200
CE
-
1300
CE
The jug appears to have a restriction round its body, but this may only be because there is an area of restoration between the upper and lower halves. Analogous neck borders occur on a jug formerly in a private collection at Orvieto, and another at Banaia.
This form was made in Umbria and Northern Lazio. Earthenware with painting in manganese-brown and copper-green under lead-glaze preceded tin-glazed earthenware in these areas and continued for some time after its introduction.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Base
Diameter 9.4 cm
Body
except base
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.23-1991
Primary reference Number: 47164
Packing number: EURCER 907
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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