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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica jug, with relief heads and a pine-cone, painted in manganese and green with vegetal motifs and rhomboids.
Earthenware. The lower part and interior are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed. Painted in manganese and copper-green. Bulbous body with disk base and a flattened zone round the widest part, cylindrical neck, and wide strap handle with a longitudinal ridge.
The flattened zone is decorated with oblique strokes, interrupted by a relief head, a pine-cone, and the remains of another head, with two manganese bands below and one above. The shoulders and neck are decorated with panels containing vegetal motifs and rhomboids reserved in cross-hatching. On the body, the handle is flanked by S hooks between two groups of three vertical lines, and, on the neck, by trelliswork.
History note: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli by 1909; probably sold by Sotheby's, 16-17 February 1914, but lot number not identified. Purchased as excavated in Orvieto from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by 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: 26.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
1375
CE
This jug is likely to have been made in Orvieto as by 1909 it was in the possession of Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli who having retired from the army became an antique dealer there. It can be seen on the extreme left of the top shelf in a photograph of medeval maiolica, but has a relief mask on the front. This may be the detached mask, C. 73-1991 (Poole, 1995, p. 79, no. 137).
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Lower Part, Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 12.5 cm
Body
Diameter 19.7 cm
Accession number: C.74-1991
Primary reference Number: 47701
Packing number: EURCER 885
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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