Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
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Categories
Description
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in black and green with leaves, arrowheads, S hooks, strokes and lines.
Jug. Buff earthenware, the interior, lower part and base lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest tin-glazed pale greyish-white. Painted in black and copper-green.
Shape 11. Bulbous body with disk base, cylindrical neck, carinated rim, pinched spout and loop handle of D-section.
The front is decorated with a row of lanceolate leaves arranged point to point with arrowheads in the spaces. Above are a black-edged green horizontal line, a row of reversed S hooks and another green line. On each side of the handle, in black, there are oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. Below are two horizontal black bands; on the neck, three; and on the handle, three black horizontal strokes alternating with two green.
Notes
History note: Signor Avvocato Arcangelo Marcioni (1859-1928) or Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli, Orvieto ; Sotheby's, 16-17 February 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, part of lot 70 or 72. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, part of lot 104; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
Height: 18.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1991-04-29)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1350
CE
School or Style
maiolica arcaica
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Diameter 11.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8.7 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 14.0 cm
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: circular with blue border
- Text: 'WILLIAM RIDOUT COLLECTION' printed in blue, 'O./59' inscribed in blue-black ink
- Method of creation: Printed in blue and inscribed in blue-black ink
- Type: Label
Inscription present: brown tie-on
- Text: 104/20
- Method of creation: Inscribed in pencil
- Type: Label
Inscription present: or 70/
- Text: 72/
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Inscribed in pencil
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.42-1991
Primary reference Number: 47438
Packing number: EURCER 427
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
