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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with leaves at the front, cross-hatching, oblique strokes and lines.
Pale yellowish-buff earthenware, the interior, lower part and edge of base lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest tin-glazed off-white. The glaze has bubbled, leaving craters in its surface. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 11. Ovoid body with disk base, tall cylindrical neck, carinated rim, pinched at the front to form a lip (missing), and loop handle with a depression on the underside.
The front is decorated with two heart-shaped leaves linked by curved stems and two triangles filled with cross-hatching. On each side of the handles, in manganese, there are oblique strokes between two groups of three vertical lines. Above and below are two manganese horizontal bands; on the front of the neck, a green chain with three manganese bands above; and on the handle, six horizontal stripes of alternate colours.
History note: Probably Signor Avvocato Marcioni or Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli; 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 104. 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.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 19.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
1350
CE
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and edge of base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 8.5 cm
Front To Handle
Width 11.6 cm
Body
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: brown tie-on
Inscription present: illegible number
Accession number: C.45-1991
Primary reference Number: 47453
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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