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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Cream earthenware, the lower part and interior are lead-glazed brownish-yellow; the rest is tin-glazed off-white. The tin-glaze has crazed. Painted in manganese and green.
Shape 7. Ovoid with flat base; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly towards the rim; broad strap handle; spout made from a strip of clay, folded and pressed to the neck.
On the front under the spout, a grotesque devil with a striped body, long tail and four horns on its head, faces to the left holding out one of its hands. One side of the jug bears the word `SaS' (Sanctus) in manganese, enclosed by two green lines forming a curved rectangular frame, open on the side nearest the devil. The other side bears the word `IohS' (Johannes), similarly framed.
History note: Unknown before F. Leverton Harris
F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 17.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1300
CE
-
1350
CE
This jug was probably made for the Augustinian convent of San Giovanni in Orvieto. Two jugs from the convent, also inscribed fro San Giovanni, were acquired by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence in 1910. Two smaller fragmentary jugs inscribed respectively 'IoH'and 'SaS' can be seen in an early twentieth-century photograph of pottery recovered from butti (rubbish pits) in Orvieto.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
lead-glaze
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 14.3 cm
Base
Diameter 8.9 cm
Accession number: C.49-1927
Primary reference Number: 47236
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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