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Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Unidentified Viterbo pottery
(Possibly)
Late Medieval, lead-glazed earthenware jug, painted underglaze in manganese and green with scrolling foliage.
Pale buff earthenware; the interior is lead-glazed brownish-yellow; base unglazed. Painted apparently underglaze in dark manganese and copper-green.
Bulbous body with slightly accentuated base, tall cylindrical neck flaring towards the rim which is pinched to form a spout and wide strap handle.
On the body, there is scrolling foliage reserved in a green ground between pairs of horizontal manganese bands. On the neck, curved horizontal green lines between narrow manganese lines flank the lower part of a lily under the spout. The handle is striped with three wide green strokes between manganese.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, part of lot 104 or 105; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 27.2 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1300
CE
Orvieto, Umbria or Viterbo, Northern Lazio
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
( base unglazed)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Base
Diameter 9.7 cm
Body
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Accession number: C.24-1991
Primary reference Number: 47169
Packing number: EURCER 889
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47169 Accessed: 2023-03-22 03:50:23
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Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
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