IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47527 accession number: C.56-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale yellowish-buff earthenware. The interior, lower part and most of the base are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed greyish-beige. Painted in black and copper-green. Lower part approximately Shape 11. Bulbous body with disk base and tall cylindrical neck, pinched spout and strap handle with longtitudinal ridge; the handle, spout and rim are restored. The front is decorated with a monster with the head of a man wearing a cap, the body of a bird, a curly tail and lion's feet. object type: Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in black and green with a monster on the front. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Signor Avvocato Arcangelo Marcioni (1859-1928) or Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando 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, lot 30 (2). Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47527 PEOPLE ------------------- Reitlinger, Henry Scipio SUBJECTS ------------------- harpie harpie CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1275 - 1375 creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1375 culture: 13th Century culture: 14th Century culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ceramiche medioevali dell'Umbria: Assisi Orvieto Todi La ceramica orvietana del medioevo I --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_56_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_56_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_56_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_56_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_56_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_56_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_56_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_56_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels