IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47745 accession number: C.76-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff fabric earthenware, thrown, the interior is lead-glazed yellowish-brown, the exterior tin-glazed pale grey. Painted in manganese, black and copper-green. Cylindrical with flat base, narrow shoulder, short convex neck and everted rim. The sides are divided into four panels by pairs of vertical lines, with alternating green and brown blobs between them. In each panel there is a central lozenge with three small leaves at the top and bottom, enclosing a flower, and, in each corner, a quarter circle containing three radiating strokes. On the neck, there are alternating vertical green and horizontal black blobs between manganese horizontal bands. object type: Late Medieval maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in manganese, black and green with four panels enclosing a flower. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cavaliere Capitano Ferdinando Lucatelli by 1909; 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 78. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, probably part of lot 108; 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; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47745 PEOPLE ------------------- Ridout, William Reitlinger, Henry Scipio CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1375 - 1450 creation date earliest: 1375 creation date latest: 1450 culture: 14th Century culture: 15th Century# culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Le vecchie collezioni di ceramica orvietana medievale 1909 Tra Collezionismo e Tutela, Connoisseur, antiquari e la ceramica medievale orvietana --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_76_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_76_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_76_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_76_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_76_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_76_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_76_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_76_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels