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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in black and green with a leaf at the front with two leaves within a border.
Pale buff earthenware. The interior, lower part, and most of the base are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed pale greyish-beige. Painted in black and copper-green. Shape 12. Bulbous body with disk base and restriction, cylindrical neck, carinated rim, pinched spout and strap handle with longtitudinal ridge.
The front is decorated with a black hatched trefoil leaf between two green leaves on coiling stems, with a wavy line border and two black bands below. The handle is flanked by oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. On the neck, there is a green chain between pairs of black horizontal bands; on the handle, seven horizontal stripes of alternate colours.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli, Orvieto by 1909. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 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: 25.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
Interior, Lower Part
composed of
lead-glaze
( and most of base)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 10.5 cm
Body
Diameter 13.7 cm
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: brown tie-on
Accession number: C.53-1991
Primary reference Number: 47489
Packing number: EURCER 906
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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