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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval jug, painted in manganese and green, with pine-cones on stems, applied in relief, surrounded by contour lines and cross-hatching.
Jug. Cream earthenware, the interior, exterior of the foot, and most of the underside are lead-glazed dark yellow; the rest is tin-glazed greyish-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 17. Elongated ovoid body with short cylindrical neck expanding towards the rim which is pinched at the front to form a lip; solid pedestal foot; loop handle of D section.
On the front, five pine-cones on stems, applied in relief, branch upwards from a low central point. The stems are surrounded by contour lines and the background is cross-hatched in manganese. On each side of the handle, there are S hooks between two groups of three vertical lines. Below are two manganese bands; on the neck, a green chain between pairs of horizontal manganese bands; and on the handle, oblique stripes of alternate colours.
History note: Presumed excavated in Orvieto; Elia Volpi, Florence; Durlacher Brothers, London, from whom purchased in November 1920 by F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926.
Height: 29.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
This jug is shown numbered 1 on the tenth photograph in a group believed to have been taken in Orvieto c. 1909-10, given by David Whitehouse in 1986 to the BM's Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities.
Interior, Foot
composed of
lead-glaze
( and underside)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 15.7 cm
Foot
Diameter 9.8 cm
Accession number: C.90-1927
Primary reference Number: 47321
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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