Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
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.
Legal notes
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
Height: 19.8 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 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
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: circular with blue border
- Text: 'WILLIAM RIDOUT COLLECTION' printed in blue, 'O/57' 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
- Method of creation: Inscribed in pencil
- Type: Label
Inscription present: illegible number
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: In pencil
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.45-1991
Primary reference Number: 47453
Stable URI
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
