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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with a shield on each side.
Cream earthenware; the interior and lower part lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest tin-glazed greyish-white; base unglazed. Painted in dark manganese and copper-green.
Shape 7. Ovoid with flat base, cylindrical neck applied folded spout and broad strap handle.
The spout and handles are flanked by three vertical manganese lines forming three panels, each decorated with a shield with a green border charged with a fess double-embattled sable, reserved in a manganese cross-hatched ground. Below are two manganese bands, and on each side of the neck, four. The spout is striped horizontally in alternate colours and there are two green horizontal stripes at the base of the handle.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli, Orvieto before 1914. William Ridout; probably Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware.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; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 18.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1350
CE
The arms might have been intended for Ranieri of Perugia or Orvieto, although the latter had a crescent above, and a star below the embattling.
This jug was probably made in Orvieto because it can be seen in a photograph in the Biblioteca comunale, Orvieto, which shows a group of medieval maiolica in the possession of Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli by 1909.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark manganese and copper-green)
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Part Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 11.3 cm
Base
Diameter 7.7 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 15.4 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.31-1991
Primary reference Number: 47374
Packing number: EURCER 453
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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