These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica cup with one handle, painted in black and green with, on the inside, a shield.
Pale reddish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed beige on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in black and copper-green.
Approximately Shape 21. Circular with carinated sides, narrow foot and one loop handle; the other has been broken off.
Inside, within two black concentric circles, there is a shield with a green border, charged with a green fleur-de-lis, surrounded by cross-hatching. On the outside there are two panels of cross-hatching each flanked by panels of vertical lines, over a green band; on the rim, a green band, and, on the handle, a green horizontal stroke with three black strokes above and below.
History note: Probably William Ridout; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 5.2 cm
Width: 13.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1350
CE
Fleur-de-lis occur frequently on late medieval maiolica, either as independent motifs (see jug C.50-1991), sometimes surrounded by a contour panel, as on a two-handled cup in the Detroit Institute of Arts, or as charges on shields, as on a cup of this type formerly in the Imbert collection, a two-handled bowl in the Casina del Bessarione, Rome, and a lobed bowl in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto. The motif also occurs on maiolica from Lazio.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Foot
Diameter 3.4 cm
Body
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.104-1991
Primary reference Number: 47829
Packing number: EURCER 941
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Cup" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47829 Accessed: 2025-06-16 18:02:02
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47829
|title=Cup
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-06-16 18:02:02|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-47829
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_104_1991_281_29.jpg"
alt="Cup"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Cup</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
